WINNIPEG: City councillors will get to keep their severance packages. Council voted 10-6 against a motion to eliminate the payouts.
Mayor Brian Bowman promised during the election to try to end severance payments for outgoing politicians, but Wednesday only had the support councillors Scott Gillingham, Janice Lukes, Marty Morantz, John Orlikow and Russ Wyatt.
A motion to reduce top-ups to those who sit on committees as well as ward expenditures, such as cable, did pass.
The vote followed a heated debate.
Bowman has said the money politicians receive when they quit city-hall, or lose in an election, amounts to a political payout.
Mynarski Coun. Ross Eadie called the use of that term “disgusting.”
“For me to say, ‘okay, that’s it, I don’t have an income the next day’, sorry, I don’t think that’s reasonable or fair.”
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