Editor:
Re: Council puts an end to golden handshake, Nov. 22
The correct term for this golden handshake, as it’s become known, is actually an "end of service benefit."
Hopefully everyone read the whole article as I see that even though Jeannie Kanakos ($34,199), Bruce McDonald ($48,978) and Lois Jackson ($124,153) are not at the end of their service, they are taking these amounts which taxpayers, their employers, did not approve.
Is this not fraud? Do these people not have a conscience?
Councillors get paid $50,470 a year plus expenses for a part-time job. I also notice that Jackson got appointed as Delta council’s representative to the Metro Vancouver board where she let her name stand for chair, which would have paid her an additional $77,474. Unfortunately she was not elected to this position (which she held from 2006 to 2011) so she will only receive $387 for a meeting up to four hours and $775 for meetings longer than four hours.
Tilly Marxreiter
Former Richmond Councillor
