Low-paid Hastings County council approves raises, new pay model

Hastings County’s councillors are the lowest-paid of eastern Ontario’s upper-tier municipalities, and they’ve approved a plan to help close the gap.At their meeting Thursday in Belleville, councillors approved a new bylaw on remuneration.“Hastings County councillors, with the exception of the warden, are the lowest-compensated councilors in the Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus at this point,” chief administrative officer Connor Dorey said Friday.In 2025, count