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Who makes what at city hall Ted Swabey
[City manager] $231,356
$190,289
Terry Hartley
Brian Clemens
[HR director, org. planning]
[Finance director]
$154,791
Toby Seward
Al Kenning
[GM, corporate services]
[Acting GM/protective services]
[former city manager]
$189,486
$161,050
$155,521
Richard Harding
Craig Richardson
[Director, parks, rec and culture]
Sasha Angus
[Fire chief]
[NEDC CEO]
$141,054
$139,374
Tom Hickey [GM, community services]
Ian Howat
$152,176
$151,601
Former city manager earned $155K in 2014
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ormer Nanaimo city manager Al Kenning remained among the top-paid city employees in 2014, despite leaving his post in 2013, due to banked vacation time and unused sick days, officials said Wednesday. The $155,521 Kenning earned in 2014 puts him as the fifth-highest-paid employee in the city, according to figures in the city’s annual statement of financial information. As city manager, Kenning had earned $237,767 in 2013. The document includes the total pay for all city employees, with specific pay amounts for employees making more than $75,000 annually.
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It shows that non-elected city employees earned approximately $400,000 less in total in 2014 compared to 2013, according to the report. Total payroll dropped to $48.9 million last year from $49.3 million the year before. The number of city management staff making more than $75,000 also decreased by four from the previous year to 73 from 77. However, employees making more than $75,000 collectively saw their total pay increase to almost $22.3 million from $21.6 million in 2013. Some senior management staff saw significant pay raises in 2014, including this year’s top earner, current city manager Ted Swabey. The chief civil servant’s salary increased to $231,356 in
2014. He earned $199,219 in 2013. Other senior staff members who received increases include: Tom Hickey, general manager of community services ($190,289 in 2014, up from $176,413 in 2013); Ian Howat, general manager of corporate services ($189,486 from $159,766); and Toby Seward, acting general manager, community development and protective services ($161,050 from $151,141). According to the city’s human resources department, a bylaw ties pay raises for management and non-exempt staff members to CUPE member increases. Swabey, who took over as city manager in September of 2013, announced a restructuring of management of city hall by cutting and combining several
city departments and axing seven management positions, creating a “flatter” structure with fewer managers with more responsibilities. The financial statements are meant to provide oversight of pay for public employees, “but it isn’t always easy to provide comparisons from one year to the next,” said finance director Brian Clemens. He said the figures in the data can be affected by retroactive payments to union employees and other factors. “You need to be careful how you use it, because context is important,” he said. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255
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Help is coming for Lantzville residents left without representation after a fourth municipal councillor resigned. Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, stepped in after former Coun. Graham Savage tendered his resignation. He left council after Dave Scott did the same last week, as did former councillors Jennifer Millbank and Rod Negrave, in late April. Savage’s resignation, given partway through the council meeting, came before council could look after some pressing business needed to fill the previous vacancies — the appointment of a chief elections officer. Without at least half of the original seven-member council plus one, the minimum needed for quorum, it removed the ability of the three remaining council members — Mayor Colin Haime, Coun. Denise Haime and Coun. John Coulson — to vote on matters affecting the municipal district. In a statement, Oakes issued a solution. “After carefully reviewing the situation regarding the District of Lantzville council, I have decided to use legislative authority to order that the remaining members of council will constitute a quorum until persons are elected and take office to fill the vacancies,” she said. “Staff at the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development have been working closely with District of Lantzville staff. We are working toward a solution that will serve the best interests of the community-at-large and also the District of Lantzville.” No word was available late Wednesday on when a byelection might take place. Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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