South Ayrshire Council has this week published its annual statement of elected members’ allowances and expenses for the financial year 2022/23.
The total salaries paid to all elected members in the last financial year stood at £670,652.
That figure swells to £680,738, when you combine all members’ salaries with the total expenses they claimed over the course of the year.
Council leader, Martin Dowey, was the highest paid elected official, raking in a salary of £39,148.
Cllr Dowey also claimed a total of £525 in expenses, through other travel, sustenance expenses/accommodation and telephone and ICT bills.
Councillors’ total expenses stood at £10,086, with Girvan councillor Alec Clark, whose salary in the last year was revealed as £26,305, claiming total expenses of £2,050, through a mileage expenses claim of £2,013, coupled with a £37 telephone and ICT bill.
Mr Clark is the local authority’s Portfolio Holder for Tourism and Rural Affairs.
One elected official who did not claim anything was Independent councillor Bob Shields.
Mr Shields’ annual salary was also revealed to be £23,704, for his brief as Chair of the Service and Performance Panel.
Mileage expenses to the tune of £6,368 were claimed by councillors.
Provost Iain Campbell saw his earnings top £30,000 with an annual salary of £29,361, a £1071 mileage expenses claim and £34 for a phone and ICT claim.
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