Board will cost HvA 185k more in 2017

The university’s Supervisory Board has informed the combined Works and Students Council (CMR) of its decision to increase next year’s budget for the Board of Directors. The HvA now pays its share of the joint 358.000 euros it and the UvA pay as salaries to the four directors of the Board of Directors of both institutions, but will have to support its own board of three directors after the de-merger.

According to the information the Supervisory Board sent to the CMR, the HvA directors will all earn the maximum possible income of 181.000 euros a year as prescribed by Dutch law for directors of public and semi-public institutions (the Wet Normering Topinkomens, WNT). This will add up to 543.000 euros in combined salary costs for all the HvA directors together, costing the university 185.000 euros more than it pays today.

Workload
The Supervisory Board had asked members of the CMR not to make this proposal public before approval but CMR member Bram Buskoop informed Folia about the Supervisory Board’s intentions. He wants the Supervisory Board to not incur more salary costs than the current amount of 358.000 euros.

‘Why should the directors earn the maximum amount while HvA personnel are suffering from a heavy workload and students are have paying more and more to study? I think it a poor show of solidarity.’

Either the Supervisory Board should decide to only appoint two directors, or the directors should not to accept the maximum salary, Buskoop says. ‘The HvA could use the money to hire more staff to ease rid the workload instead.’