Noosa Council Watch

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

Sandy Bolton

What Noosa Council paid Sandy Bolton and what Sandy claimed on top, Jan–Jun 2014 to 2015-16, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.

$156,993remuneration, 3 years
$19,715expenses and allowances
$2,142of that, beyond the flat allowances

Year by year

YearRole Salary + super Expenses total Beyond allowances Source
Jan–Jun 2014 Councillor 32,870‡ 4,267 327 AR 2014 p.12, AR 2014 p.14
2014-15 Councillor 69,926 9,596 1,716 AR 2014-15 p.13, AR 2014-15 p.15
2015-16† Councillor 54,197‡ 5,852 99 AR 2015-16 p.15, AR 2015-16 p.17

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 318 9 2,500 1,440 0 — — — 4,267
2014-15 979 737 5,000 2,880 — 0 0 — 9,596
2015-16† 0 99 3,593 2,160 — — 0 — 5,852

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.