The Editor,
Re. “$48K payout for Moore when he leaves office” (The Tri-City News, July 11).
Greg Moore ends his job as of the mayor of Port Coquitlam the same way he started it: by giving himself an indecent pay increase, a leaving allowance of $48,000. Who else gets to vote themselves $48,000, for quitting their job?
After he was elected mayor, he and his pals on council gave themselves a whopping double-digit pay increase at a time when pay increases for everybody else, if any, were in the low single digits.
Recently, he and council members protested like spoiled children that after years of snorting at the trough, they now had to pay income tax on their so-called non-taxable income.
Undeterred, they voted themselves pay increases to cover the extra cost. Who else gets to do this?
This is his and his council’s legacy. This is how he will be remembered, from the Arms to the downtown Starbucks. They took money from us that they neither earned nor deserve. They are not to be trusted. They are in it for themselves. Greg Moore was in it for himself.
What a great shame. What an insult to the citizens of Port Coquitlam.
Peter Manning,
Port Coquitlam
