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ORDINANCE NO. B-2195
AN ORDINANCE providing for a full time City Attorney, providing a salary
commensurate with such full time employment and declaring
an emergency.
WHEREAS, The 1958 Budget of the legal department provided
for a City Attorney and an Assistant City Attorney, both upon a part
time basis, and
WHEREAS, both the City Attorney and the Assistant City
Attorney resigned as of May 31, 1958 and the City has been without the
services of a City Attorney since said date, and
WHEREAS, it is impossible to obtain the full time services
of a competant Ctty Attorney at an annual salary of less than $10,000.00
dollars and an emergency exists requiring an increase in the annual
salary of the City Attorney to $10,000.00 dollars, and
WHEREAS, it could not have been reasonably foreseen at the
time of the adoption of the 1958 budget of the Legal Department that it
would become necessary to obtain the services of a full time City Attorney,
and
WHEREAS, the City Commission finds that the services of a
full time City Attorney are required and necessary in the public inter-
est,
NOW; THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That an emergency exists requiring the employ-
ment of a full time City Attorney and that it could not have been
reasonably foreseen at the time of the adoption of the 1958 budget that
such full time employment would be required.
Section 2. That the annual salary of the City Attorney to
be employed on a full time basis is hereby increased to $10,000.00
Dollars.
Section 3. That this ordinance is one providing for an
increase in salary and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and
this ordinance Shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its
passage, approval and publication as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED EY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved the 20th
day of August, 1958.
ATTEST: J.A. SMITH ( S E A L ) JOE K. ALDERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct
copy of Ordinance No. B-2195 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing for a full
time City Attorney, providing a salary commen with such full time
employment and declaring an emergency.", as passed on the 20th day of
August, 1958, and that the same has been published as required by law.
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