Fiscal Note
This ordinance changes the application of pay increases for the Mayor and Alderpersons from once every four years to annual adjustments, subsequent to the next election for each office. This was the practice in place prior to 2007.
The annual calculation will be based on the pay increase provided to City Managers four years prior to the year of the pay adjustment for the Mayor and two years prior to the year of the pay adjustment for Alderpersons. For example, in 2016, the pay increase for the Mayor would be the percentage increase provided to City Managers for 2012 (3%). For Alderpersons, the increase in 2016 would be the percentage increase provided to City Managers for 2014 (yet to be determined).
The fiscal effect of the approach proposed in the ordinance is expected to be minimal. For the Mayor's salary, rather than incurring 4 years of pay adjustments once every four years, the fiscal effect will be one-quarter that amount every year. For Alderpersons, it will be an annual adjustment of one-half of the current two-year adjustment.
Annual pay increases of between 2% and 4% would generate a budget adjustment of $3,000 to $6,000 for the Mayor's Office and $2,000 to $3,000 for the Council. Under the current approach, that adjustment would be four times larger than the annual amount and incurred once every four years for the Mayor's Office and two times larger than the annual amount for the Council and incurred once every two years.
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Repealing and recreating Section 3.50(1) of the Madison General Ordinances to update salaries for and modify the method for changes to salaries of Alderpersons and the Mayor.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance makes several changes in the compensation of the Mayor and Alderpersons.
First, it updates the salaries of Alderpersons, the Mayor, and the President and President Pro Tem of the Council to reflect the salaries that became effective in April, 2011.
Second, it makes a change in the method ...
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