HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1397EMERGENCY 0 RD INANC E NO, 1397
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, DECLAR-
ING THAT AN EMERGENCY EXISTS, AMENDING THE BUDGET AND
APPROPRIATING MONIES TO PROVIDE FOR PAYMENT OF SALARIES,
WAGES, AND.EXPENSES NECESSITATED BY SUCH EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, since adoption of the original 1951 Annual Budget of
the City of Renton, in which salaries and wages of City employees
were established generally at the same level as the preceding year,
there have occurred marked and continuing increases and inflation in
the cost of necessaries for living, and concurrently therewith scales
of wages paid by other employers have been materially advanced* as
a result of which a number of the City's employees have quit their
employment to obtain higher wages elsewhere; and whereas employees
of the City have by petition and orally advised the City Council that
they are reluctantly obliged to seek employwent elsewhere because of
inadequacy of their pay to meet the increased cost of living; and
whereas the City Council finds as an existing fact that a number of
City employees have quit their jobs and that a further number will
immediately quit their jobs, due to inadequate pay, and that adequate
replacements cannot be hired without increase of pay, and that thereby
the City is faced with an immediate existing emergency and stoppage of
governmental functions including the preservation of order and'of the
public health, the maintenance of street, water, sewage --,,disposal,
police and fire protection services; and whereas in order to retain
and replace the �'amployees required for continued operation of City
departments and functions it is necessary to immediately provide in-
creased pay for employees to meet their increased cost of living;
AND WHEREAS, it is necessary for the proper administration,
operation and maintenance of the City, its governmental services and
its departments, to appropriate funds for and out of the several City
funds for the payment of such expenses and increases of pay, now
therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED By THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON,WASHINGTON:
Section 1: That the foregoing recitals and facts are here-
by found and determined by the City Council to be true and immediately
existing, and by reason thereof the Council does hereby declare that an
immediate emergency exists, which could not be foreseen.
Section 2: That all monthly salaries and hourly wage rates
in the 1951 Annual Budget which as therein established amount to less
than $350.00 per month (exclusive of overtime pay) be and are hereby
increased by adding to each such monthly salary $20.00 per month, and
adding to each such hourly wage rate 00.12 (twelve cents) per hour, or
such lesser sums as will not increase any given salary or wage beyond.
$350.00 per month; Provided that there shall be no increase in month-
ly`salaries established at $350.00 or more per month in said 1951 An-
nual Budget, and any increase made or paid hereunder ,shall be limited
to such amount as will not increase the salary or wages payable to any
employee (excluding overtime pay) beyond a total of $350.00 in any one
month; and provided further that no increase shall be made hereunder
in salary of any City " official elected or appointed for a fixed term,
being those designated in Ordinance No. 1317 as amended.
Section 3: That there is hereby appropriated out of any sur-
pluses in the several funds and out of the current expense fund, for
expenditure in payment of salaries, wages, and City contributions to
employeets retirement fund, in the various classifications of said 1951
Annual Budget as same are affedted by the foregoing increases# the fol-
lowing total additional amounts estimated to be required the reby,towit:
For increases in monthly salaries: $15,840.00
For increases in hourly wages: 12 240.00
For increases in City contributions '
to employee's retirement fund: 1,340.00
Total $29,420.09
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Section 4: This ordinance is an emergency ordinance which
shall not be voted upon until one week shall have elapsed after its
introduction; and a copy thereof shall be published as a proposed
ordinance, together with a notice of the time set for voting there -
one
Section 5: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval and publication.
Introduced and first reading January 23, 1951.
Hearing held and unanimously passed by the City Council this
0th day of January, 1951.
Approved by the Mayor this -30 day of January, 1951. This
matter and Ordinance having been submitted to and approved by the State
Division of Municipal Corporations and Attorney General on January 26,
1951.
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