Who would want to be the mayor of Renfrew?

Other than perennial candidate Cal Scott, what person would have the willingness to take on a thankless position at the head of a table of squabbling councillors and overly-confident and assertive administrative types?

Is it the base salary of $20,425?  Add committee and board assignment remuneration to this base salary, but where does that get you?

As recently as 2022, the mayor landed some $42,400, so one could maybe be forgiven for assuming that the mayor’s position took an almost twenty grand haircut in the two years since.

My point here is that it can’t be for the cash, at least not in 2025.  Maybe in 2022, when it was all rainbows and cherry blossoms, but not now.  At least I don’t think so.

Trying to get information on this sort of thing is like sitting in the dentist’s chair while they take multipole measurements of each tooth in your mouth while everyone in the room gets older.  Because of this, I’m going to take the $42,400 number as my working number, and to hell with what the internet says.

So, after all that, my question remains, who would want to be mayor of this place?  Is just over forty grand enough money for the self-abuse that surely follows everyone who wears the chain of office?  And if it’s not, how much salary would be enough?

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