The RCMP has proceed with a pay raise for its employees and as a result the CNV and DNV will be on the hook for the additional funds. However, the RCMP never discussed this with either council or mayor before this happened (see full story at http://www.nsnews.com/business/RCMP+hike+shocks+mayors/6452107/story.html ).
The questions again begs to be asked: Should the we have our own police force instead of outsourcing this to the RCMP?
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Why do the RCMP officers get a 2% salary increase and the nurses and the teachers get nada?
What do u mean, they thought there
would be no increase and a 20 yr.
contract should never have been accepted!
The Firemen too got a raise.
I wonder what DNV Clr. Doug MacKay-Dunn has to say about this?
I think we should have our own police force. Wouldn't our costs be easier to control if we did?
Too little too late to the tune of about 20 years.
This is but another assault on municipal taxpayers. It is ridiculous that the Feds can do this without notification to the municipalities signing the contract.
Also, our MP Andrew Saxton has a few questions to answer:
1. What about the CBC cuts?
2. What about the Enbridge pipeline proposal?
3. And, what about your sky-high pension when you are voting in favour marginalizing our seniors even further?
Municipal pensions are also very lucrative. Especially when you factor cronyism and nepotism into the pension formula.
What about the Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion proposal, Andrew Saxton?
I read a great letter lately directed to Surrey Mayor Diane Watts: Why didn't you read the contract before you signed it?
Why is everyone pretending that they are shocked about a reasonable increase in the RCMP wages? The police deserve a wage increase.
Municpal Police forces do not have better cost containment.
West Vancouver Police Contract
Check out section 5.01a
West Vancouver Police increases
January 1, 2008 ...........3%
January 1, 2009 ...........3.5%
January 1, 2010 ...........4%
January 1, 2011 ...........4%
The RCMP contract is going up 2% this year and 1.5% next year.
ml
Sorry... the RCMP WAGE is going up 2% and 1.5%... The Contract will be driven by wage as well as other costs.
This is a bit of a no-brainer. Of course RCMP wages will go up just like every other wage in the country.
Point being that the wage increase should have been included within the costing of the 20 year contract.
If not, then it should have been clearly held outside of that agreement but understood by all parties that costs in excess of the base contract would be attracted over time.
Who the hell is running the show as this is very basic collective agreement negotiation that should have been caught by every and any level of gov't reviewing same.
to ml,
The municipal police forces are worse than the RCMP. They just have fewer asses to cover.
Did the city just give exempt staff a 2% or 3% raise?
ml
West Van is one municipal force. What's to say that a North Van Police wouldn't be?
Then it wouldn't be a municipal force. It would be a regional force.
The West Van agreement followed the CUPE agreement which was 18.76% compounded over 5 years.
Yes I am typically a supporter of the RCMP, but I am very frustrated with the 'black box' style of budgeting where we as the contractor only have one mechanism for changing the cost of the contract (i.e. contracted officers).
I am not convinced that a municipal force would grant us much more influence as the local police boards tend to be dominated by provincial appointees rather than directly accountable persons.
There are advantages with either method. I would like to give the RCMP a last opportunity to bring some fairness into the integrated teams system. If they can stop the exodus of funds and officers to work on Surrey cases, then I will continue to support them.
ml
I'd be happy if they would just spend some time focusing on enforcing the laws here on the North Shore. Particularly speeding on residential streets and maybe even cracking down on the beer consumption at the local softball diamonds every weekend. These jokers are drinking and then getting in their cars and driving through our neighbourhoods.
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