16.5% increase to WBC councillor basic allowance Options

[Simon Kirby]

This article says that a recommendation to increase the WBC councillor allowance by 16.5% is to be voted on next week.

The current basic allowance is £6,285 and the proposal is to increase that to £7,324, with an additional cost to the tax-payer of £54k. That's offset a little by the abolition of a £200 broadband allowance and a £200 IT consumables allowance, but as only one in four councillors claim that it's not a big saving.

That does seem to be an excessively generous increase for a job that, in my view, should be done without reward for the public benefit. I accept that an allowance to cover necessary expenses is appropriate, but at a guess I'd have thought a tenth of that allowance was adequate.

[NWNREADER]

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