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What each councillor has declared in the register of interests council publishes.

Frank Pardon

What Noosa Council paid Frank Pardon and what Frank claimed on top, Jan–Jun 2014 to 2019-20, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.

$436,658remuneration, 7 years
$47,366expenses and allowances
$243of that, beyond the flat allowances

Year by year

YearRole Salary + super Expenses total Beyond allowances Source
Jan–Jun 2014 Councillor 33,228‡ 3,940 0 AR 2014 p.12, AR 2014 p.14
2014-15 Councillor 69,926 8,074 194 AR 2014-15 p.13, AR 2014-15 p.15
2015-16† Councillor 71,529‡ 7,742 19 AR 2015-16 p.15, AR 2015-16 p.17
2016-17 Councillor 72,965 7,910 30 AR 2016-17 p.9, AR 2016-17 p.10
2017-18 Councillor 74,424 7,880 0 AR 2017-18 p.16, AR 2017-18 p.18
2018-19 Councillor 76,098 7,880 0 AR 2018-19 p.28, AR 2018-19 p.30
2019-20† Councillor 38,488 3,940 0 AR 2019-20 p.18, AR 2019-20 p.19

What the expenses were

The categories as each year's report printed them. The vehicle and home-office figures are flat allowances paid to every councillor; the others are claims. A dash is a category that year's table did not have.

Year Mandatory PD & representation Discretionary PD & representation Vehicle allowance Home office & phone Accommodation Hospitality Travel Hospitality & travel Total
Jan–Jun 2014 0 0 2,500 1,440 0 — — — 3,940
2014-15 0 144 5,000 2,880 — 50 0 — 8,074
2015-16† 0 19 4,843 2,880 — — 0 — 7,742
2016-17 0 30 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 7,910
2017-18 0 0 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 7,880
2018-19 0 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 7,880
2019-20† 0 0 2,500 1,440 — — 0 — 3,940

Footnotes

† An election year: council printed the figures as two tables, to and from polling day. The two are added here; the source links open both.

Reading the figures. "Mandatory" professional development and representation is conference travel the policy funds without a case-by-case claim: the LGAQ conference, the Mayor at the national ALGA assembly, and anything else Council resolved to send a councillor to. "Discretionary" is the councillor's own allowance for courses and conferences, capped at $2,500 a year with one year's carry-forward. Council reports each year that every claim fell within the policy's limits. No report itemises what a conference or trip cost; a year's figure is the year's figure. The policy is on council's website.

All councillors' years side by side: pay and expenses.