Perth Mayor John Fenik has a reason to smile, an unusual one at that.<\/p>\n
The mayor expressed no qualms about asking for a raise in a meeting with council that took place on the 14th<\/sup> of September.<\/p>\n At a Committee of the Whole meeting regarding council expense accounts and remuneration, councilors unanimously agreed that the town\u2019s mayor should have an increase of honorarium of $24,000, $6,000 higher from the $18,000 the \u00a0mayor has received for the past 4 years. After a lengthy discussion, council also agreed that Perth\u2019s deputy mayor should also receive an increase of $14,000 from $12,000. Councilors themselves can also expect to receive $13,000, $2,400 higher from the current $10,560.<\/p>\n The meeting was held to go over expense accounts before the municipal elections on the 25th<\/sup> of October. While some members have expressed reluctance in introducing large increases, they were eventually convinced that the Mayor and other local government officials were underpaid for quite some time.<\/p>\n Deputy Mayor John Gemmell also commented that the mayor deserves a raise for all his hard work. He points out that Fenik is on the job from morning to afternoon, even during the late hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perth Mayor John Fenik has a reason to smile, an unusual one at that. The mayor expressed no qualms about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[264,262,263],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-ontario-news","tag-mayor-fenik","tag-perth-mayor","tag-perth-mayor-raise"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-gD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}