Derby City Council leader Paul Bayliss ensures plans to boost his pay by £11,220 are rejected
CITY councillors in Derby have voted against giving the leader of the authority an £11,220 pay rise.
Derby City Council leader Paul Bayliss currently receives just under £40,000 a year in allowances.
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Paul Bayliss
At a full council meeting held at the Council House last night, members – under instructions by Mr Bayliss himself – voted down a motion to increase that by 20%.
Ahead of the vote on the motion, Mr Bayliss put forward an amendment which stated that: "At a time when the authority is being forced to make redundancies as a direct result of Government cuts, it would be inappropriate for council to agree to an increase in allowance for any of its members."
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He then instructed members of his Labour group to vote the amendment through, which they duly did.
He told the meeting: "The role of leader is a full-time role and is very challenging. It is fully deserving of a £50,000 allowance.
"But it does not sit right with me to take an increase when so many people are struggling with cuts.
"I did not come into politics to make money. I do it as a matter of public service. A leader is worth every penny of the allowance but it does not feel right that I would get an increase when nobody else is."
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by Hamed32
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 5:39PM
“Well done that man”
by WillCroft3
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 5:27PM
“Who was the No-mark who suggested giving him this pay rise in the first place?
when they are making so many staff redundant and cutting their funding to important projects like Active8 for the young & care homes for the elderly.”
by spondon
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 3:42PM
“@ DerbyVillager;"I'm not sure about him being worth £50,000. What does he actually do?
Ranjit Banwait seems much harder working."
Paul Baylis is the leader of Derby City council and decides on policy with the Labour group. Ranjit Banwait is his deputy and likes to be in the limelight. Mr Banwait is often refered to as Mr Bandwagon. I used to work with one on the hardest working men in the UK but he did little constructive and achieved little for all his efforts as it was all done in a random way and not directed.
I always said this was a non story and just a bit of filler from the DT. Mr Bayliss never had a thought of accepting the indepedent panel reccomendation nor would anyone else with an atom of politicall sense. I do agreee that the leader of a council or a company should be paid at a market rate and that is considerably higher than £50k. Take out the political angle and in a comercial environment his salary would be much higher.
Surely if a banker can get a bonus of £1 m for losing money and robbing the exchequer a council leader should get the rate for the job.”
by MrsChristmas
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 3:04PM
“While cutting services to to the most vulnerable in our society, the domestic violence unit, the old, the sick and the poor, talk of giving ANYONE a pay rise at this time is obscene! Glad he's done the right thing, but i'm not holding my breath...”
by Derbyborn51
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 1:17PM
“Does this mean I wont have to pay £40 to have my brown bin emptied. Or do I have to keep flytipping my grass down the canal. Its costing my a fortune in petrol.”
by roberttaggart
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 1:06PM
“YIPEE !”
by DerbyVillager
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 12:21PM
“I'm not sure about him being worth £50,000. What does he actually do?
Ranjit Banwait seems much harder working.”
by Marcus_oNE
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 12:04PM
“This is nothing more than political posturing!
If he had no intention of taking the pay rise then why bother going through a panel too assess it, writing a report, having it tabled as a motion, etc. he could have saved a load of pen pushers a lot of time! ...obviously the public in general could not have seen how 'noble' he is!”
by janine2011
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 11:52AM
“Soon find out next year Mr Bayliss when the expenses and allowances are listed for public perusal. We will all see exactly how much each and every councillor has gotten from us. don't forget we can go backwards as well so we will know how each of them charged us BEFORE they came to power.”
by Weegee
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 11:45AM
“Why, it must be election time soon and the narrowing thinking labour council think that this vote not to give Paul Bayliss additional expenses will win them the vote. The voters are far wiser and in touch with what is actually happening in Derby, then the Labour council are or will ever be.
It is no good bolting the gate once the horse has bolted !!!!”