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Cash for hatchery (and PM council) PoMo councillors vote themselves a 29% raise; mayor gets 16.5% bump By Dan Ebenal THE TRI-CITY NEWS
the current rate. The city had hired Sainas Consult Inc. to deal with the issue and the consultant’s report looked at council pay in the municipalities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Maple Ridge, N e w We s t m i n s t e r, Langley and White Rock. The report found that the average annual salary in those municipalities is $35,314 for councillors and $90,995 for mayors. It suggested that Port Moody councillors’ pay go from the current $25,520 to $33,000 and that the mayor’s salary jump from $72,914 to $83,000. Council voted 6-2 in favour of the recommended increase for councillors but chose to increase the mayor’s salary to $85,000, $2,000 more than recommended, on a motion by Coun. Diana Dilworth.
Gleneagle secondary’s Cordell Parker puts on the brakes in front of Joaquin Bennett-Boire of Surrey’s Holy Cross regional high school in a basketball tournament hosted by the Coquitlam school. The Crusaders shaded the Talons 73-70 in Wednesday night’s game. For more sports, see page 39.
Port Moody council members gave themselves an early Christmas present Tuesday evening. At a special meeting called so council could vote to contribute up to $10,000 towards the reconstruction of Mossom Creek Hatchery, which was destroyed by fire six days earlier, council also approved a sizable pay hike for itself. That vote — held with few members of the public present and no community TV cameras on hand — means councillors’ salaries will jump 29.3% to $33,000 a year while the mayor’s annual salary will go to $85,000, up 16.5% from
Bird needs cash to fly south for winter
Hunter is hurting as a thief steals mobility
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By Diane Strandberg
By Gary McKenna
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Taylor Swift needs a ride to California. No, not the American singing star who can afford her own private jet. The bird named Taylor that needs a ride is a whitethroated swift that was found scared and starving on a sidewalk near Coquitlam Centre.
A Port Coquitlam woman’s elderly, arthritic dog will have a harder time getting around after someone stole a bike and an attached doggy buggy this week.
see $1,600 TO MOVE TAYLOR, page 4
PAUL STEEVES/WILDLIFE RESCUE ASSOCIATION
This tiny white-throated swift was found on a sidewalk in Coquitlam. The Wildlife Rescue Association of BC is aiming to get it to its destination: Southern California.
see ‘IT’S JUST’, page 3
Laura Smith said Hunter, her Rhodesian ridgeback-basset hound cross, can only get around in the threewheeled buggy, which is red with black mesh zippered doors and windows. see WITHOUT, page 14