[Singapore] - 5 PAP Community Development Council (CDC) mayors get paid Sg$70k per month

[UltimaOnline]

SINGAPORE — Many Singaporeans are of the view that the salaries of Community Development Council (CDC) mayors are "outrageous", mainly because they are not perceived to commensurate with the mayor's roles and functions today, said Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh on Wednesday (24 February).

"Other Singaporeans are of the view that the CDCs' functions can be carried out by other existing entities, or by ministries and statutory boards, including other organisations under the People's Association, particularly since the social footprint of each CDC is uneven, and can differ greatly compared to another," claimed Singh.

"Yet others simply don't know what the CDCs do."

There are currently five district mayors - Low Yen Ling (South West), Denise Phua (Central), Fahmi Aliman (South East), Alex Yam (North West) and Desmond Choo (North East).

According to the 2012 White Paper on government salaries, mayors are paid an annual salary of $660,000. This is in addition to their annual MP allowance of $192,500.

Speaking during the parliamentary debate on Budget 2021, the Workers' Party chief noted that $20 million was allocated to the CDCs in the Unity Budget last year, and this increased to $75 million a month later in the Resilience Budget. "This injection is equal to all the reserves of the CDCs put together, according to the CDCs' FY 2018 annual report."

The Aljunied Member of Parliament called for a "serious review" of the necessity of having full-time CDC mayors, suggesting that bodies such as the Citizens Consultative Committees (CCC) are more closely connected to the ground. He noted, for example, that representatives of market and merchants association are commonly represented on the CCCs, and there is one CCC for each ward or constituency.

It would follow, said Singh, that the CDCs' role in the CDC voucher scheme is potentially "superfluous". The 43-year-old added, "So it would appear to me as if the government is trying to find some way to make the CDCs relevant, in view of their relative absence in the public mindshare."


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[batman1]

Costs of additional layer of duplicated bureaucratic government (middlemen).We could have stopped this nonsense of plundering the taxpayers' money in the last GE July 2020 but failed.Thanks to the 61% !

 

[A Singaporean]

Legalised corruption.

 

[pvtpublic]

CDC mayorship system represents cronyism politics at its finest!

 

[bobby]

The gahmen will say...or else how to get good quality people to become mayors ?

 

[red amoeba]

What are they doing to justify this pay ?

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

cdc is what
never heard of them
what they do huh?
why need cdc?

 

[millim6868]

Only on media mayor go around distributin food,i tot welfare organisation doing that,and also talk abt community works ,these Tc sub to EMS n others,so watbthe CB Mayor doing,all trying to leech the system legally,knn,61% are blind

 

[bobby]

In other democracies...mayors are elected and not suka suka appointed.

 

[Sideswipe]

sg so small, needs 5 mayors for what. legalized nepotism and corruption.

 

[congo9]

Why not defend the system that pay you well, pay you above board?

 

[laksaboy]

Even LKY and Woody Goh, despite their flaws, weren't that brazen as kleptocrats.


Part 1 Lee Hsien Loong is an imbecile and a coward
Part 2 Jiang family invading Sinkieland, wants to turn it into another mainland China city.

 

[bobby]

How can MP and Mayor from same constituency ? Same work but double pay ?

 

[congo9]

Problem is with the elected and appointed. The elected appoints and appoints the appointed.

 

[Annunaki]

 

[Capano2121]

cdc is what
never heard of them
what they do huh?
why need cdc?

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CENTRE

 

[Capano2121]

CDC does great things by taking care of HIV and AIDS patient. How do they find time to take care of the constituency and all your problems? They don't even have enough time to figure out their low salary when they could be earning 3 to 4 times more in the private sector. So pathetic these mayors have to have 2 jobs just to have enough to live miserably.

 

[batman1]

We brainstormed among our kopi kakis why PAP are kleptocrats ? The answer is the PAP has a sense of entitlement. They always brazenly think they should be entitled to and should be overpaid a high salary of $XXX which contrasted with the perceptions and views of the ordinary citizens . They are not in politics to serve the ordinary people,they are merely mercenaries.

 

[bushtucker]

do these mayors actually do worthwhile shit for the township people?

 

[andrewteo]

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This fucker is a police scholar .