Stephen Vance, Staff
The Municipality of Meaford has released their annual list of employees who earn more than $100,000 per year as required by the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act. Each year organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario must disclose the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year, the compiled list is commonly referred to as the ‘sunshine list’.
Prior to 2009 Meaford had no employees earning enough to land them on the list, but that changed when former CAO Frank Miele became the first with a reported income of $118,000 in 2009.
The number of Meaford’s municipal employees finding themselves on the annual ‘sunshine list’ has grown steadily over the past five years, and with the release this week of their 2015 salary disclosure, the Municipality reports that a total of seven employees earned more than $100,000 in 2015, though one of them is no longer with the municipality.
The following staff with the Municipality of Meaford are included on the 2015 salary disclosure list, as submitted to the Province on March 7, 2016.
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Robert Armstrong, Director of Development & Environmental Services – Salary of $106,925.00, Taxable benefits $845.72
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Dan Buttineau, Director of Parks, Recreation & Culture – Salary of $106,925.00, Taxable benefits $845.72
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Darcy Chapman, Treasurer/Director of Financial Services & Infrastructure Management – Salary of $104,965.00, Taxable benefits $829.20
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Mike Molloy, Fire Chief – Salary of $104,377.00, Taxable benefits $809.40
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Denyse Morrissey, Chief Administrative Officer – Salary of $147,838.60, Taxable benefits $1,169.88
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Robert Tremblay, Clerk/Director of Legislative & Protective Services – Salary of $100,153.20, Taxable Benefits $790.52
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Stephen Vokes, Director of Operations – Salary of $110,846.56, Taxable benefits $772.75
Vokes no longer works for the municipality as his position was eliminated in September as a result of a staff realignment after the completion of an organizational review that had been requested by council in July of last year.
In addition to the elimination of the Director of Operations position, the position of Purchasing Agent was also eliminated and the number of municipal departments was reduced from six to four.
The updated organizational structure included the re-alignment of key service areas and staff positions within the four departments and reduced the number of full time staff positions to 59 from 61 which Meaford CAO Densye Morrissey said would save the municipality $233,000 per year beginning in 2016.
