Your Voice: It's baloney to suggest Kelowna councillors are working full-time at City Hall

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Dear Editor,

Let’s finally dismiss this claim by some Kelowna city councillors and Mayor Dyas that they are working full-time jobs at city hall.

TD Benefits website shows that Mayor Dyas is the president.

Maxine DeHart has for years claimed she is director of marketing at the Ramada Inn and Convention Centre.

Luke Stack was president of a housing co-op.

Loyal Wooldridge is also paid $50,000 for being president of Regional District of Central Okanagan. So are we paying him for two full-time jobs?

We also have a university professor, a consultant on several boards of directors and others who have worked elsewhere.

When I finished university I was a high school math teacher. To supplement our meagre salary 50+ years ago, I took a job at General Motors warehouse from 5 pm to 1 am. Now that was two full-time jobs, and I lasted about a month.

To quote Al Pacino, “I’ve been around, you know,” and most of us have been, so we recognize when others are blowing smoke.

Why do people at City Hall continue to do that? We see through the baloney.

Larger cities than Kelowna estimate that councillors work about 15-17 hours per week at that position.

That seems in line with holding down an actual full-time position elsewhere.

Don Henderson

Kelowna