Saturday, June 16, 2012

City of WL 2011 SOFI Report out...

As required by the Financial Information Act by June 30th of each year - the City of Williams Lake has produced its 2011 Statement of Financial Information or SOFI Report.

The report details the full audited financial statement for the City as well as remuneration/expenses paid to the City's 7 elected officials and those appointed officials (Staff) who made over $75,000 and total sum paid to City Staff who made under $75,000

As far as Williams Lake Council goes:

Name
Office
Expenses – End of 2011
Expenses – End of 2010
Remuneration – to end of 2011
Tom Barr
Councillor
$2,128.40
$4,672.89
$13,970.00
Ivan Bonnell
Councillor
$75.00
n/a
$1,270
Geoff Bourdon
Councillor
$3,916,78
$3,546.60
$15,240.00
Kerry Cook
Mayor
$6,782.12
$10,048.87
$43,687.92
Natalie Hebert
Councillor
$0.00
$1,925.88
$6,350.00
Danica Hughes
Councillor
$75.00
n/a
$1,270
Surinderpal Rathor
Councillor
$9,596.58
$979.61
$15,240.00
Laurie Walters
Councillor
$4,995.07
$2,726.23
$15,240.00
Sue Zacharias
Councillor
$4,025.61
$2,101.31
$15,240.00

Please note - Natalie Hebert resigned her seat in July of 2011 and Tom Barr did not seek re-election in last November's civic elections

Councillor Rathor will have some explaining to do to account for his $9,596.58 in submitted expenses.  I think if one accounts for $5,000 for FCM in Halifax, $2,000 for UBCM in Vancouver and $1,000 for the NCLGA Conference in Prince Rupert (even with car pooling), that still leaves roughly $1,000 unaccounted for....

Update - June 16th at 4:48pm - Councillor Rathor has called me to clarify that travel and related expenses to FCM are accounted for in a separate budget line and don't count towards the $5,000 travel budget line that the 6 City of Williams Lake Councillors' have access to

Meanwhile - the Top 3 City Staff earners at Williams Lake City Hall are as follows:

Name
Position
Expenses – end of 2011
Expenses – end of 2010
Remuneration
Brian Carruthers
CAO
$21,288.70
$14,607.68
$149,482.69
Geoff Goodall
General Manager of Planning & Ops
$1,233.84
$899.03
$115,836.79
Kevin Goldfuss
Director of Muni Services
$2,868.99
$3,300.79
$106,314.67

The City of Williams Lake also paid out $5,350,986.76 in remuneration for those who made under $75,000 with expenses submitted totaling $32,318.96

You can read the full 2011 SOFI Report here

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

$35,000 in two years!!!!!! Someone needs to explain how the CAO spent that much in expenses in two years. That is unbelievable.

That is more then most of us was able to take home to our families.

Mayor and Council have some serious explaing to do. WTH!!!!