Council's urgent sitting

XMAS EVE: NOT DILIGENCE, PREPARING FOR MEETING ON OWN SALARY HIKES

- Antoinette Slabbert

The dedication of the whips in the Tshwane city council seemingly knows no bounds, to the extent that they held a meeting on 24 December – a day before Christmas and during the council recess.

On the agenda? Preparation for a council meeting to approve their own salary increases!

Their enthusiasm was evidently contagious, because the entire council will meet on 14 January for a special council meeting about the same matter – even though the January council meeting is scheduled to take place during the last week of the month, as it does every month.

By going the extra mile for the city, the councillors will take the "worry" out of their "Janu-worry".

They are expected to be rewarded when the 5% increase proposed for the current financial year is paid at the end of the month – backdated to 1 July last year.

In addition, each will get an increase in their monthly cellphone allowance of R1 486 if the proposal is accepted.

To be fair, in the previous financial year they, like the administration, got no increase.