I am curious. The Town of Cochrane will grow its workforce to 206 full-time personnel this year. The town has eight senior managers, all of whom have pay ranges well over $100,000/yr. That means the town has one highly-paid manager for every 25 employees (including two senior managers who earn in the area of $200,00/yr).
Does this not seem excessive? Airdrie appears to be doing more with less and they have faced growth even more daunting than Cochrane.
I will point out the obvious - the private sector generates money, the public sector distributes it. Without a healthy private sector there will be insufficient money for the public sector to distribute. It follows, then, that the public sector (The town of Cochrane), should respond to the current economic stresses by at minimum, not increasing its demands upon private business and citizens.
How apt that our town office is literally set apart from the community that carries it.
