Cllr Elizabeth Evans defends pay rise for Ceredigion councillors amid huge council tax rises and service cuts

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00:00 regarding all the community events that we do go to as councillors.

00:05 We've all got them in our wards and there are many of them.

00:07 But that is all voluntary.

00:09 That's in our own time.

00:10 We get paid for three days a week.

00:14 Now, what I would suggest and what Gary said,

00:16 I don't think there should be any grand gestures of,

00:19 "Oh, we're not going to take this money."

00:21 Because what we do, we do a disservice to

00:23 any future candidates for this council chamber,

00:26 because nobody should ever, ever make it a consideration

00:31 whether they stand for council for election

00:33 based on their own personal circumstances.

00:37 That's the truth. Otherwise, we would be

00:39 having a very narrow demographic in this council chamber.

00:42 So what is not our decision,

00:44 I do think that we should never,

00:47 ever feel guilty for taking a salary either,

00:51 because all of us, to a man and a woman,

00:54 work very, very hard.

00:55 Tioch.

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