A Nov. 1 2011 request by (CMSL) vice president Wesley Sam to review the board's stipends has not yet been brought up for discussion by the new board.
Sam, who has been reelected to the board as vice president for another term, said he made the original request as it has been a while since the topic was discussed.
CMSL executive assistant Michael Riis-Christianson said that the board stipends remain the same for the new directors at this point.
Currently each of the five directors are paid $250 per month for attending meetings, with president Quentin Beach, receiving an additional $250.
Riis-Christianson said, "If directors don't attend meetings they are not paid. And the $250 is a flat fee. If they attend 10 meetings, they still receive $250."
He said directors are also able to claim for the payment of expenses incurred during travel on community forest business, but added that nothing of this nature has been incurred by directors for many years.
As reported in the Lakes District 亚洲天堂 edition of Feb. 1, 2012 Riis-Christianson recently completed a survey of the board stipends of other community forest organizations in B.C.
Of the 24 plus community forests surveyed, just two paid their directors as a stipend.
The report showed that Likely-Xatsull pays its directors a stipend of $50. The Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation pays the chair $1,200 per year and the directors $600 per year, however it was noted that the directors have voluntarily waived their stipends.
Other community forest organizations only pay directors for expenses incurred while traveling to conventions on behalf of the board.
