The Wanaka Community Board's elected members have again voiced their dissatisfaction over their remuneration levels.
At last week's community board meeting, the four elected members said they did not endorse the proposed levels of annual salaries for elected local authority members, passed unanimously by the Queenstown Lakes District Council last month for consideration by the Remuneration Authority.
A remuneration proposal prepared by council finance manager Stewart Burns and adopted by the council in November recommended the elected board members' annual salaries be reduced from $17,688 to $12,249 for the 2010-11 financial year, after a council decision to remove them from standing committees.
The affected board members raised concerns about the recommendation in November, forcing the council to address the issue before voting on the recommendation in February. The board members then accepted the proposal on the basis it would be reviewed in June, based on evidence they provided of the time spent working on council business during the past six months.
"There was no sensible information collected, so in the absence of that we couldn't really change it [the remuneration proposal]," Mr Burns said.
"It was agreed in June that they [the elected board members] would keep time records over the next six months."
Based on that evidence, salary levels would be reviewed again for the 2012-13 financial year, he said.
Mr Burns said he would record the community board members' dissent in the proposal recommended to the Remuneration Authority.
