The cost of the Translink board of directors has skyrocketed over the last five years going up hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Back in 2007 the total renumeration for the Translink board was $ 126,000.
When the provincial government overhauled the board the following year that’s when the costs started to spike.
The latest stats from the ‘Southcoast BC Transportation Authority statement’ in 2010 show the total cost of the board was $ 624,000.
The board chair alone in 2010 earned $ 125,000, almost the entire cost of the whole board just five years previous.
NDP Transportation critic Harry Bains “it’s outrageous the way they are spending money on themselves.”
The highest paid director made $ 64,000 attending 30 meetings.
Jordan Bateman with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says for the most part taxpayers don’t even know who sits on the Translink board and there’s no accountability.
He said “I bet you if you polled every mayor and councillor in the region less than 10% could name a member of the Translink board and then for the public well forget about it we have no idea who it is and yet they’re raking in $ 650,000 a year just for meetings, it’s unbelievable.”
Bateman says it’s time for the provincial government to go back to the drawing board and start over when it comes to Translink.
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