Are those councillor allowances?
Seaham car park charging being introduced.
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Shandy drinker
Striker
Has anyone ever seen or heard the chief executive
Thought not
These people just hover around in the shadows
Frasmotic
Midfield
£13,300 p/a for councillors I believe
County Durham councillors overwhelmingly reject a pay rise
103 councillors voted in favour of motion that blocked a 2% increase to the basic allowance rate paid to councillors each year.
www.palatinate.org.uk
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
Had a discussion with him a few year on behalf of someone close to me who took Durham Council Children Services to the cleaners, fair to say he was absolutely thick as shit and had no answers to the findings of his workforce in Children Services which were found by an independent tribunal to be well below expected standards.
Shandy drinker
Striker
This whole leader and ceo of councils is very blurred
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
The top 5/6 in the council at Durham costing 1.1 million in salaries. Ridiculous
Frustrating but I can see this just been the start, £3 will become £4 within a year or so. Charging to park at Crimdon is ridiculous
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Frasmotic
Midfield
A quick google around and up pops an article about Durham Council having significant funding problems £400+ million debt) needs to save £58+ million in 4 years bla bla. Blaming parking charges with climate emergency is just absolute 100% pure political
and nobody but nobody is buying it.ps: Does anyone know what the 'Leader Of The Council' gets paid and know why it is such a difficult figure to find out ?
seahamstar
Striker
No
Isn't the 'leader of the council"' the chief executive?A quick google around and up pops an article about Durham Council having significant funding problems £400+ million debt) needs to save £58+ million in 4 years bla bla. Blaming parking charges with climate emergency is just absolute 100% pure political
ps: Does anyone know what the 'Leader Of The Council' gets paid and know why it is such a difficult figure to find out ?
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Crook Mackem
Striker
I don't think the actual cllrs get paid that much tbh. It's the actual employees at the top who get the big money
Frasmotic
Midfield
Look on the right hand side under the Council badge where it says Leadership
Durham County Council - Wikipedia
seahamstar
Striker
Right yeah.Look on the right hand side under the Council badge where it says Leadership
Durham County Council - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
In that case (as is at a council I used to work for), the 'leader' would then be one of the councillors
Yeah.
And with everything else, some councillors are in it for what they can get, but others aren't.
My partner's parents were councillors and used to spend a lot of their own money on things for their local community, and also have put a lot of work in themselves - stuff like clearing snow from outside of pensioners homes.
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Frasmotic
Midfield
There some eye watering council salaries.
According to the "Taxpayers Alliance" (and this data has been re-published in The Telegraph and probably others) check out the Director of Neighbourhoods on Sunderland Council under the heading 'In The Northeast'.
Surely that can't be one wage for one person can it ?
Town Hall Rich List 2023: 2,759 council bosses received over £100,000 last year
Town Hall Rich List 2023 finds the number of officials receiving more than £100,000 was 2,759, with 721 getting over £150,000. The TaxPayers’ Alliance provides a council-by-council breakdown of local government executive pay deals. With households facing record council tax rises, the campaign...
www.taxpayersalliance.com
Ciro_DiMarzio
Winger
Charges meant to start today but we've parked up and the machines are covered up and say out of order 
OldNewtown
Midfield
Delayed until 15rh April I understandCharges meant to start today but we've parked up and the machines are covered up and say out of order
Ciro_DiMarzio
Winger
Cheers. No signs or anything up and no answer on the phone number that's on the machines.
42
Striker
Because they aren't on a salary. There'll be a separate link somewhere detailing councillor allowances
It's the going rate for a council CEO. How much do you think they should get & why?
Is the prime minister & permanent secretary to the cabinet office (head of the civil service) the same job? No.
Is it hard to find?
I found it with 1 Google search
£36.5k for position of leader plus the standard £13,300 Councillor allowance, so about £50k
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
150k tops which is what the PM (irrelevant of party) gets.
150k tops which is what the PM (irrelevant of party) gets. Top brass in the public sector massively overpaid, same in the NHS, rotten.
They mentioned "climate emergency" as one of the reasons to introduce car parking charges. That very same "climate emergency" doesn't exist at County Hall in Durham.A quick google around and up pops an article about Durham Council having significant funding problems £400+ million debt) needs to save £58+ million in 4 years bla bla. Blaming parking charges with climate emergency is just absolute 100% pure political
ps: Does anyone know what the 'Leader Of The Council' gets paid and know why it is such a difficult figure to find out ?
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Paddy O'Dors
Striker
In charge of a budget of £1.3bn and 18000 employees? NLW should suffice really. I mean it's £11.48 an hour from today, what more do they want?
In the real world the CEO of a company with a similar budget etc would command probably 10 times that. For instance Alistair Phillips-Davies, CEO of SSE gets £1m a year salary and £4m in other renumeration.
42
Striker
The pm is the head elected bod who's equivalent on the council earns £50k
The government's equivalent of council ceo earns about £400k
