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 ...
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