This week was revealed that Bristol City Council voted last week for a pay rise for the mayor and councillors - despite pay freeze for all directors - and the postponement of the local elections.

It's to come into effect in May. It's worth £180 000 per year

But meanwhile they ask us to volunteer to help the NHS and find shelter for the homeless?

I'd happily do that but I want my fellow taxpayers' money to be used for NHS salaries and charities! Not the councillors currently working from home on laptops!!

Let's ask the city council to use these £180 000 for the homeless charity or the NHS workers! 

Here are details:

24 MAR 2020, from Bristol Live

Bristol city councillors have voted through a pay rise for themselves which will cost council tax payers an extra £180,000 a year, while freezing the salaries of top officers.

The increases include £9,000 a year for the elected mayor Marvin Rees, £5,500 for deputy mayors Craig Cheney and Asher Craig and £3,500 for the seven other cabinet members, along with a rise of about £1,000 in the basic allowance for all 70 members.

They were supposed to be delayed until after the local elections – originally scheduled for May but postponed by 12 months because of the coronavirus pandemic – to give some “distance” between the councillors approving them and those receiving them.

But lord mayor Jos Clark confirmed at a full council meeting of Bristol City Council on Tuesday, March 17, that all the changes would come into force this coming May.

The rises for the deputy mayors and cabinet members were recommended by an independent remuneration panel and voted through unanimously at the meeting with no debate last week.

At a full council meeting last September, councillors voted in favour of the panel’s advice to increase the mayor of Bristol’s salary by 12.6 per cent, from £70,605 to £79,468 to match that of an MP, which would have also come into force after the local elections.

 
Full council chair Cllr Clark said at last Tuesday’s meeting: “Obviously the mayoral elections are no longer taking place, however the recommendations would come into force in May 2020.”