Terrace could see record-high annual tax increase - Terrace Standard

Salary review could trigger property tax hikes

City taxpayers could face a tax increase of just under 2.5 per cent to finance salary increases of nearly $370,000 for City of Terrace managers and other non-unionized employees next year.

“Regionally, the public sector is competing with industry in wages and other employee perks, like flexible scheduling, work from home models, etc.,” city manager Kris Boland wrote in a memo to city council recommending the city raise salaries as outlined in the review. The review compared 19 city positions with equivalent ones in local governments as close as the Kitimat-Stikine regional district, Kitimat and Prince Rupert and as far away as Dawson Creek and Summerland to establish minimum, median and maximum salary ranges.

Those pay levels range from city manager to directors or department heads down to jobs called professional support. City staffers are recommending council set rates at the maximum rate as outlined in the review. The review also recommended performance bonus packages called merit maximums of five to 10 per cent, something not wholly recommended in Boland’s memo.

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