{"id":45,"date":"2010-02-16T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/02\/canadian-mayor-returns-his-raise.html"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:25:12","slug":"canadian-mayor-returns-his-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/02\/canadian-mayor-returns-his-raise.html","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Mayor Returns His Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you accept a raise that was over $2,000?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castanet.net\/news\/West-Kelowna\/52613\/Findlater-gives-raise-back-to-the-people\">Doug Findlater,&nbsp;the&nbsp;mayor&nbsp;of West Kelowna, British Columbia<\/a>, decided to write a check and give his raise of $2,762.37 back to the people of West Kelowna.&nbsp; Each year, the city council meets to determine the mayor&#8217;s raise.&nbsp; This year, Findlater declined&nbsp;to be&nbsp;a part of the deliberations and also attempted to turn down the raise.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When Findlater&#8217;s&nbsp;decision to&nbsp;decline the raise proved unsuccessful (he&nbsp;was required to accept it), he wrote a check instead to return the money.&nbsp; &#8220;The only thing I could do was give the money back. A 4.75% increase is not right in these times,&#8221; Findlater said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you accept a raise that was over $2,000? Doug Findlater,&nbsp;the&nbsp;mayor&nbsp;of West Kelowna, British Columbia, decided to write a check and give his raise of $2,762.37 back to the people of West Kelowna.&nbsp; Each year, the city council meets to determine the mayor&#8217;s raise.&nbsp; This year, Findlater declined&nbsp;to be&nbsp;a part of the deliberations and also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-inspiring-people"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Canadian Mayor Returns His Raise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/02\/canadian-mayor-returns-his-raise.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canadian Mayor Returns His Raise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Would you accept a raise that was over $2,000? 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