Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon, has described as an “eye pass” a proposed monthly sti-pend for municipal councillors.
Gordon told his colleagues that he had seen a document from the Ministry of Communities with recommendations for a monthly stipend of $8,000 for municipal councillors.
Stating that the proposed stipend is low because councillors have accepted a very low stipend for some time, Gordon also rationalized that if the municipal workers’ wages are not increased it would seem morally inappropriate to raise the councillors’ stipend. He, however, opined that the time has come for comparisons to be made across the nation and he has noticed that toshaos now have duty-free concessions for vehicles and he has not seen anything in that legislation for mayors and deputy mayors. “This kind of inequity,” he concluded,
