Back to the future as we enter into a post consumer and oil society. Could some one please tell me:
1. What does the Mayor of the District of Lantzville get in the way of salary, benefits, honorariums and expenses? How long has Colin Haime been the Mayor and what has he received for each year he's served and what benefits like pension, etc. will continue after he is defeated or leaves office voluntarily?
2. What does a Councillor of the District of Lantzville get in the way of salary, benefits, honorariums and expenses? How long has Denise Haime been a Councillor and what has she received for each year she's served and what benefits like pension, etc. will continue after she is defeated or leaves office voluntarily? Contd...
What an inspiration Mayor Colin Haime, of The District of Lantzville http://www.lantzville.ca/cms.asp?wpID=465, British Columbia is to our local political, corporate, and academic world! Colin Haime, CA has been a CASB (Chartered Accountant, School of Business) facilitator since 2001. He is a Partner in Barber & Haime, Chartered Accountants (Mayor Colin and wife - Councillor Denise Haime (Barber) are CA's and principles of barberhaime.com/), a Professor in the Faculty of Management at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo http://www.viu.ca/business/faculty/haimec.asp, see: http://www.casb.com/pdf/CQ_Winter-2008.pdf As a "peasant" living with my wife, a student, on less than $14,000/yr and friends to activist Dirk Becker and magazine owner Nicole Shaw whose combined income is approximately$20,000 I cannot help but wonder how in touch Colin and Denise and their "accountant majority on council " are with people who are struggling to get clean and nutritious food by growing our own food? Maybe some time "walking awhile in our shoes" would teach them what it is like to struggle to make a living on Vancouver Island these days?
On the Island we only produce 4% of the FOOD we consume here. The rest of our food has to come from somewhere else in the world: China, California, Florida, Mexico, Thailand: What is going to happen when there is no more cheap transportation or "chemicalized" food?
Dedicated to Jim Brash, Lantzville, BC, Canada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjOURlqpiMQ&feature=player_embedded#!
ReplyDeleteyour not getting the point here. he is running a commercial farm on a residential lot. his former neighbor said that at one point he had dumped a tote of rotten shrimp on his compost pile, which in turn made sitting out on her patio very undesirable. either follow the rules or shut it down and find some property in the ALR. by the way being a councilor or mayor of Lantzville pays peanuts. fraser5347@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteIn answer to the great majority of your questions regarding the past salary and benefits of Colin Haime and his wife Denise, please go to http://vigilantz.blogspot.com/2011/05/lantzville-administration-too-big-and.html. Colin was Mayor of the District of Lantzville since incorporation in 2003 (8 years) and an Improvement District Trustee for 9 years before that while Denise has been a Councillor since 2005 (6 years) and was a Regional Director for Area 'D' (and what remained of it after 2003) from 1999 to 2005 (another 6 years). Fortunately and rightly so, there is no pension or other benefits that will continue after either of them leaves office.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Al's comment about these positions paying "peanuts", I would have to say that is all relative to the amount of work/effort involved. The other part of his comment is one that is shared by a number of people in Lantzville and it is hoped that the new Council, working with these neighbours, can find a 'balanced' solution.