Ontario Superior Court Justice Jon-Jo Douglas made $225,234.46, plus $3,453.23 in taxable benefits in 2007, up just less than $7,000 from the previous year. The Public Sector Public Disclosure summary of public employees earning more than $100,000 annually was released by Ontario’s Ministry of Finance Monday.
Released each year as required by Ontario’s Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act (1996), the list is also known as the “sunshine list”.
Douglas, a New Tecumseth resident, received coverage in local and national media after he ordered a witness who is HIV-positive and has Hepatitis C - the victim of an alleged prison rape - to wear a mask in his courtroom because of concern for contamination. Victim’s rights advocates alleged Douglas’ demands were unwarranted and not based on scientific fact.
Also ranking high on the list are officials at Stevenson Memorial Hospital.
Former SMH president and CEO Ed Takacs made $155,385.75, about $9,500 less than 2006. Former vice-president and chief nursing executive Susan Plewes made $118,684 last year, about $15,000 more than 2006.
Vice-president/chief financial officer Steven Miller made $112,648, up about $9,000. All three resigned in 2007 in the aftermath of the mass-resignation of the hospital board of directors.
Interim SMH president Gary Ryan made $172,800.08, plus $26,108.52 in taxable benefits. Annette Jones, interim vice-president pulled in $165,249.97 plus $23,824.32 in taxable benefits.
Those salaries were largely generated from their fulltime positions at Southlake Regional Health Centre. Both started at SMH in September, but also kept their jobs in Newmarket.
For municipal employees, New Tecumseth CAO Terri Caron was paid $139,162.66, plus $14,691.05 in taxable benefits.
Director of technical services and deputy CAO Brendan Holly was paid $122,073.06 plus $6,154.79 in taxable benefits. There were no employees from either Adjala-Tosorontio or Essa townships paid more than $100,000.
There were 17 Simcoe County employees paid more than $100,000 last year, up from 12 in 2006. Among those is general manager of corporate services Rick Newlove, who is also a councillor in Essa Township. He was paid $154,462.20.
In the education sector, now-retired Banting Memorial High School principal John Fallis made $110,477.36 and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School principal Ana Marie Prokopich made $106,246.13.
There were several local elementary school principals from both school boards on the list as well.
Nottawasaga OPP’s Detachment Commander Dave Farrar and Staff-Sgt. Dirk Cockburn both made the list. Farrar made $122,730.23 and Cockburn made $111,871.55.
Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority CAO Wayne Wilson made $107,006, while his counterpart at the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, Gayle Wood, made $127,784.
In social services, the Children’s Aid Society of Simcoe County had five employees making more than $100,000 last year, with executive director Mary Ballantyne making $146,339.
Simcoe Community Services - which runs group homes and offers a variety of support programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities, as well as administering several Ontario Early Years Centres, plus other preschool services - paid its executive director, Lynn Price $158,240.
The list is broken down according to sectors, and is available on the Ministry of Finance’s website, http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2008/
- With files from Laurie Watt
