WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015
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Records fall at Harry Jerome Indoor Track and Field Meet at Richmond Olympic Oval. Page 17
CRIME
Sinister trap found on sports field Homemade device with nails sticking out planted next to Steveston-London secondary Alan Campbell
Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com
Jasmine Torbie, (AKA ‘party girl’) centre, makes a mask at the Richmond Cultural Centre during Family Day on Monday as part of the seventh annual Children’s Arts Festival. Photo by Gord Goble/Special to the News ! More photos on page 18
City’s high earners top B.C. Graeme Wood
Staff Reporter gwood@richmond-news.com
The City of Richmond has 13 employees making more than $200,000, according to public sector salaries released by the B.C. government and published by the Vancouver Sun. The only local government agency in B.C. with more $200,000-plus remunerations was TransLink, which tipped the scales with 14. Richmond’s 13, $200,00-plus employees are two more than Surrey, a city 2.5 times more populous than Richmond and one more than Vancouver, a city three times more
populous, with an operating budget five times greater. Burnaby, a city with a similar population but slightly greater operating budget, has just four employees earning over $200,000. Richmond’s deputy chief administrative officer, Joe Erceg, took home $345,600 while CAO George Duncan banked $308,300, $31,000 less than his Vancouver counterpart. Salaries included payments, such as vacation payouts and bonuses. Andrew Nazareth, the city’s general manager of finance and corporate services, and Robert Gonzalez, the city’s general manager of engineering and public works, nearly tipped the $300,000 mark with payouts of $298,000 and
$294,600, respectively. Two high-paid positions involve the Richmond Olympic Oval. Its chief operating officer, John Mills, was paid $229,500, while Shana Turner, the Oval’s director of finances and corporate services, was paid $244,000. According to the Oval’s 2014 budget, the facility generates about $7.5 million in revenue along with a $2.2 million grant and $3.2 million subsidy from the City of Richmond. Phyllis Carlyle received $256,200 as Richmond’s general manager of law and community safety, while 2014 city council election hopeful Dave Semple raked in $244,900 as general manager of parks.
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Richmond RCMP are appealing for help after a sinister trap was found embedded in a school sports field. Police responded to a report around noon on Sunday of a trap — packed full of large nails protruding upwards — discovered by a student on the grounds of StevestonLondon secondary. The device, which is homemade according to police, is understood to have a plastic base, and is about four centimetres deep, wide and long. It was partially concealed by the grass on the field. Police are taking the matter very seriously, as they say the device was placed in such a way to cause significant harm to anyone who stepped or fell on it. “It was purposely concealed with grass and placed in a busy foot traffic area,” said acting Corp. Dennis Hwang, of Richmond RCMP.
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