Politicians have approved a 35 per cent pay bump for their role after the next election but have backed away from setting up a severance package for defeated incumbents and an extra stipend for committee chairs.

Following a 9-6 vote at Tuesday’s meeting, council approved an increase in pay from the median full-time income to the 70th percentile of full-time income in the London census metropolitan area. That means councillors would earn more than 70 per cent of London-region residents.

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“I’m a living and breathing part of (Ward 2) at this point in time, and that is more, I would argue, than a full-time role,” deputy mayor Shawn Lewis said. “Fourteen individuals and a mayor are going to have to be elected next year to carry on the business of a $1.3-billion-a-year ope

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