Weds Apr 3: Reader Questions Owen Sound's Admin & Managerial Expenses

Plus: Grey Bruce OPP laid 146 charges for traffic offences over the holiday weekend

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In a new letter to the editor, Owen Sound resident Jim Hutton questions why the City’s management and administration costs are not part of cost-saving measures.

“In Tuesday’s edition of the Owen Sound Sun Times, we were informed of the 2023 sunshine list, which shows that we now have 85 City employees earning more than $100,000.

That’s up from the 51 on that list in 2018. That’s a 66.6% increase in just five years. 

I raised the issue of the city workforce being top-heavy with managers in a Research Paper I delivered to Council last November, in which I compared Owen Sound to eight (8) similar municipalities.”

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