Fiscal Note
Funding for the Mayor's salary is fully budgeted in the 2007 Adopted Mayor's Office operating budget. No additional appropriation is required. However, there is not sufficient funding in the Council Office budget to support the proposed increase in Alderperson salaries, estimated to total an additional $2,164 ($2,010 in salary and $154 in benefits). Therefore, an appropriation from the Contingent Reserve is required
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SUBSTITUTE CHARTER - Amending Section 3.29 of the Madison General Ordinances to provide for a salary increase for the Mayor and Alderpersons and to clarify the language that specifies the manner in which successive salary increases shall be calculated.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance changes the manner in which increases in the Mayor's and Alderpersons salaryies are calculated. Under current law, the salary for the Mayor increases every year by the amount of increase granted to the City's managerial employees from 4 years earlier. Under this ordinance, the Mayor's salary would only increase once, at the beginning of a four-year term, by the combined amount of such managerial increases in the prior four years. It would then be fixed for four years. The salary set forth as the base in this ordinance ($115,138) is the amount the Mayor elected in April would be paid under the continued operation of the current formula. For Alderpersons, current law provides for no salary increases. Under this ordinance, salaries for Alderpersons would increase only once, at the beginning of each two-year term, by the combined amount of the average increases granted to the City bargaining units in the previous two years.
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Pursuant to Section 66.0101 Wis. Stats., 2003-04, the Common Council of the City of Madison do ordain as follows:
1. Section 3.29 entitled "Salaries Of Mayor And Officials" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"3.29 SALARIES OF MAYOR AND OFFICIALS. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 62.09(6), Wis. Stats., the salaries of City officers are hereby fixed at the rates hereafter indicated and shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed:
Annual Salary
Members of the Board of Public Works, excluding the Alder-
persons and City employees, (each) per year $100.00
Members of the Board of Review (each) per diem $ 20.00
Alderpersons:
Effective the term that begins April 15 17, 2003 2007, the Alderpersons' salaries, except for that of President and President Pro Tem of the Common Council, shall be $6,771 $7,113. Such salaries shall annually be adjusted by a percentage equal to the average percentage of the adjustments granted to the City's recognized bargaining units whose contracts expired two years preceding the year of adjustment, rounded to the nearest whole percentage effective the second pay period in April. However, such annual adjustments to salaries shall terminate at the end of the terms of Alderpersons in 2005. Thereafter, at the beginning of each successive two-year term, that amount shall be adjusted once by a percentage equal to the combined two annual percentage changes granted to the City's recognized bargaining units in the previous two years, rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
Mayor:
Effective the term that begins April 15 17, 2003 2007, the Mayor's salary shall be $101,324 $115,138. Thereafter, at the beginning of each successive four-year mayoral term, that amount shall be adjusted once by a percentage equal to the resultant combined four annual percentages changes calculated four years previously for managerial employees in the previous four years pursuant to Section 3.38(6)(c)4., rounded to the nearest whole percentage, and shall be effective the second pay period in April of each year of the mayoral term. Such annual salary adjustments shall terminate at the end of the mayoral term in 2007. The Mayor shall accrue vacation as provided in Section 3.36(7) of these ordinances. In addition to this salary, the benefit provided for in Section 3.38(28) of these ordinances shall be afforded to qualifying Mayors. Notwithstanding these provisions, the Mayor's salary beginning April 15, 2003 and ending April 10, 2005 shall be $96,258 annually.
President of the Common Council:
Effective term that begins April 15 17, 2003 2007, the President's salary shall be $9,017 $9,473. Such salary shall annually be adjusted by a percentage equal to the average percentage of the adjustments granted to the City's recognized bargaining units whose contracts expired two years preceding the year of adjustment, rounded to the nearest whole percentage effective the second pay period in April. However, such annual adjustments to salary shall terminate at the end of the terms of Alderpersons in 2005. Thereafter, at the beginning of each successive two-year term, that amount shall be adjusted once by a percentage equal to the combined two annual percentage changes granted to the City's recognized bargaining units in the previous two years, rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
President Pro Tem of the Common Council:
Effective the term that begins April 15 17, 2003 2007, the President Pro Tem's salary shall be $7,588 $7,971. Such salary shall annually be adjusted by a percentage equal to the average percentage of the adjustments granted to the City's recognized bargaining units whose contracts expired two years preceding the year of adjustment, rounded to the nearest whole percentage effective the second pay period in April. However, such annual adjustments to salary shall terminate at the end of the terms of Alderpersons in 2005. Thereafter, at the beginning of each successive two-year term, that amount shall be adjusted once by a percentage equal to the combined two annual percentage changes granted to the City's recognized bargaining units in the previous two years, rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
This is a charter ordinance and shall be effective upon sixty (60) days from passage and publication subject, however, to the referendum procedures of Section 66.0101(5), Wisconsin Statutes."
2. Pursuant to sec. 66.0101, Wis. Stats., this Charter Ordinance shall take effect 60 days after publication, subject to the referendum rights in sec. 66.0101(5), Wis. Stats.