Cornwall councillors vote on pay rise recommendation: decision
Cornwall Council council chamber (Image: Richard Whitehouse) Cornwall councillors have agreed to freeze their allowances after rejecting an independent panel’s recommendation to increase them. In an often heated debate councillors took more than two and a half hours and five separate votes to decide to keep their allowances at the current rate and only rise in line with any pay increases awarded to council staff. It means that the council’s basic allowance for elected members will remain at £14,472.48. Combined with the reduction of councillors from 123 to 87 after May’s electi...
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