Misfortune and Carelessness.

Despite Craven District Council being in a hell of a mess financially, with a £62k per employee pensions debt, a total of £17 Million, they are very quick at spending money. Whilst they may soon find themselves out of business should a unitary authority be decided upon, they have never the less decided that they need new offices at £7 Million plus to replace their 50 year old ones. They have also decided to meet this Wednesday to give the chief executive officer (ceo) a 16% rise.
That ceo has already had a 37% increase over her 4 year tenure, obviously not enough.
She's also on performance related pay, but as the whole income of CDC is now spent on staff wages - she having increased staff numbers by 23% - perhaps that's inadequate?
The recommendation to increase the salary has come from the soon to be disbanded 'Local Government Yorkshire and Humber Assembly' and the employers' representative is one Carl Lis, coincidentally the leader of Craven District Council, and also one of the people who will be voting this Wednesday on the increase.
Carl of course has never been an employer, having spent all his life working for Hansons Quarries, and is therefore in an excellent position to judge on such as employees' salaries, and what can be afforded for them.

Note: Craven District Council have increased council tax 22% over the last 4 years guided by this chief executive and under the leadership of Lis, but somehow managed to lose two Directors of Finance in the space of around 12 months.
To lose one director may be regarded as misfortune, to lose two does smack of carelessness.