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File #: 00671    Version: 1 Name: increase alders' salary
Type: Charter Ordinance Status: Denied
File created: 2/23/2005 In control: BOARD OF ESTIMATES (ended 4/2017)
On agenda: 3/29/2005 Final action: 3/29/2005
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: CHARTER - Amending Section 3.29 of the Madison General Ordinances to authorize adjustments to salaries for alderpersons through 2007.
Sponsors: Brenda K. Konkel, Paul J. Van Rooy
Fiscal Note
The total additional annualized cost for the term beginning April, 2005 is $2,852.  Salary increases are:  Alder, $139.44 (times 18 Alders = $2,510); President Pro Tem, $156; Council President, $186.  Funding for 2005 is included in the 2005 Adopted Operating Budget.
Title
CHARTER - Amending Section 3.29 of the Madison General Ordinances to authorize adjustments to salaries for alderpersons through 2007.
Body
Pursuant to sec. 66.0101, Wis. Stats. 2003-2004, 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, 2003 2005, the Alderpersons' salaries, except for that of President and President Pro Tem of the Common Council, shall be $6,771 7,113.60. 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 2007.
      Mayor:
Effective the term that begins April 15, 2003, the Mayor's salary shall be $101,324. Thereafter, that amount shall be adjusted by a percentage equal to the resultant percentages calculated four years previously for managerial employees 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, 2003 2005, the President's salary shall be $9,017 9,473.28. 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 2007.
      President Pro Tem of the Common Council:
      Effective the term that begins April 15, 2003 2005, the President Pro Tem's salary shall be $7,588 7,971.60. 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 2007.
 
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."