THE FORD GIVETH & THE COUNCIL TAKETH AWAY ford gives staffers a raise just before council takes it away: council will be voting on a motion to reduce ford’s office budget to the same as councillors’, which means the mayor will not be able to pay for his staff from the mayors budget. “Sources confirmed to the Toronto Sun that Ford gave every member of his mayor’s office staff $5,000 raises on Friday before council stripped him of his powers. It’s a surprising taxpayer-funded pay hike given Ford’s penny-pinching persona but it is part of a growing list of surprises that have rocked Toronto municipal politics the last few weeks.” The motion, in part, reads as follows: “1. City Council delegate to the Deputy Mayor all powers and duties which are not by statute assigned to the Mayor. “2. City Council reallocate the operating budget of the Office of the Mayor as follows: “a. The staff salary and office budget under the control of the Mayor be the same as that of a member of Council. “b. The balance of the operating budget be reallocated to the City Clerk’s Office to be administered under the oversight of the Deputy Mayor. “3. City Council authorize that all existing members of the Mayor’s staff be offered the opportunity to continue their employment either with the Mayor or as part of a transfer of staff to be overseen by the deputy Mayor who shall assume responsibility for staffing, including hiring and firing.” 4. City Council suspend the necessary rules and substitute torontosun/2013/11/16/mayor-rob-fords-week-one-for-the-books
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