Fiscal Note
This ordinance provides a temporary supplemental wage adjustment of 5% during 2011 for all non-represented City employees, commencing if and when those employees are required to begin paying 5.8% of gross wages towards the Wisconsin Retirement Fund, pursuant to the provisions of the Governor’s Budget Repair Bill. Assuming this wage increase would become effective on May 1st, the cost for the remainder of the year would be approximately $1,300,000. This cost would be fully offset, however, by the savings that would accrue to the City as WRS pension costs are shifted from the employer to employees. Thus, sufficient funds are available in the current budget to implement this temporary wage increase until the end of the year.
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Creating Sec. 3.54(1)(r) of the Madison General Ordinances to provide a temporary 5% supplemental wage increase for Non-Represented City Employees if and when 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, or other similar legislation, takes effect.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance provides a temporary 5% supplemental wage increase for Non-Represented City Employees. The increases for CG’s 17, 18, 19, 21, 43, 44 and the hourly employees are effective if and when 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, or other similar legislation, takes effect and those employees are required to make contributions to the Wisconsin Retirement System. This ordinance will sunset with the pay period ending December 10, 2011. At that time, the 3% increase provided by Legistar No. 21447 (ORD-11-00031) approved in February 2011, would be effective. Note that this ordinance provides for this temporary increase for city managers (CG 21) at the same time as other non-represented employees, and thus is an exception to the usual process set out in Sec. 3.54(6), MGO, of identifying funds available for managerial increases to be made at the discretion of the Mayor.
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