If the motion to create a provincially-appointed independent commission to review and set local government remuneration passes, it would go to the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) meeting in September.

"I think that the only thing that would really make people happy is if we cancelled the whole thing and took a pay cut on the one-third as well."

"Politicians get to vote themselves a pay increase, it tends to make people crazy because they don't think it's fair. We don't get to do that for ourselves," said a civic affairs columnist.