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Maitland Councilors Vote Yes For Pay Rises

If Maitlands Councils 7.2% rate wasn’t a big enough kick to the teeth last month, this month they have decided they did such a wonderful job in screwing you out of more cash it’s only fair they deserve a 20% increase in councillor allowances and Mayor Lorreta Baker deserves an increase of $19,000 per year.

Only two councillors voted against the increase to their allowances which was Cr Mitchell Griffin and Cr Sally Halliday.

Both myself and Cr Sally Halliday voted against this rise in the allowance. Given the current hardships in the community from the COVID pandemic and special rate variations, we felt now was not the right time for an allowance rise for our councillors.

Cr Mitchell Griffin

This is the same council that is wasting $32,000 per week of your money to keep the failing MRAG afloat and has increased rates year after year.

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