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THUNDER BAY – Members of Thunder Bay’s embattled police services board would see their pay more than triple, under a proposed budget that seeks a nearly 70 per cent increase in city funding overall.
None of the board members currently hold any decision-making power, after the Ontario Civilian Police Commission appointed administrator Malcolm Mercer to oversee the board, finding its level of internal dysfunction constituted an “emergency.” The police services board’s actual costs last year were just shy of $900,000, nearly double the budget council approved.
“The bulk of the increase and the overruns that we experienced in 2022 largely lie in the cost of legal services,” he said. “As members may be aware, we had, um, considerable activity requiring legal counsel and support.” While the board has touted its progress on that front, Mercer found “a very concerning failure to advance the recommendations” in the 2018 Sinclair report, which dissolved the police services board, concluding it had shown "willful blindness" in failing to address anti-Indigenous racism.
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