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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952-B-1389 r .396 • ORDINANCE NO. B -1589 AN ORDINANCE providing for increased compensation to city employees and providing for the■expenditure of money not provided for in the budget adopted by the City Commission of the City of Yakima for the fiscal year of 1952; declaring that a. public emergency exists and es =timating the amount of money required • to meet the public emergency. WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Yakima, did heretofore, as provided by law, adopt a budget for the fiscal year of 1952; and • WHEREAS, since the adoption of said budget, a public emergency has arisen which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the adoption of said budget, requiring the expenditure of money not provided for in the budget, which public emergency has arisen by reason of the loss to the city of a ]a.rge number of employees, and the city is threatened with the loss of other employees; and . WHEREAS, the increased cost of living and the availability of employment in numerous defense industries, and the higher wages being offered in other employment, • has made•it impossible for the city to keep its employees for the salaries authorized to be paid and provided for in said 1952 budget; and WHEREAS, the city will lose other employees; unless their compensation id increasedbeyone the limits provided for in said budget,'and the loss of said employees will seriously hinder and impair the City of Yakima in the exercise of its governmental functions and in the performance of its duties and obligations to the inhabitants' of the City of Yakima and their property; and WHEREAS, the said budget does not contain any item for said expenditure for said increased salaries and wages, and it is estimated that the sum of $24,000.00 will be required to meet the existing emergency. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. That there shall be expended by the City of Yakima a sum of money not to exceed the sum of $24,000.00, for the payment of an increase in the salaries and compensation to be paid to the employees and officers of the City of Yakima, exclusive of the • City Commission, from the 1st day of August, 1952, over and above the amounts provided for in the 1952 budget, and that said expenditure be made by increasing the salary or compensation of each employee by an amount equal to five percent of his present compensation provided for in said budget. Section 2. That the aforesaid emergency expenditure shall be paid by the issuance of emergency warrants, which emergency warrants shall be paid from any moneys in the current expense fund or other proper funds available therefor, and the City Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay such warrants out of such moneys. Section 3. That it is hereby declared and found to be a fact that a public emergency does exist necessitating the passage of this ordinance, and that said public emergency could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the adoption of the 1952 budget, and that it is necessary to make the expenditure of money for the purposes hereinabove set forth, and this ordinance is declared to be necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, property, health and safety of the people of the City of Yakima, and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by ]aw and the City Charter. Section 4. This ordinance shall not be voted upon until one week shall have elapsed after its introduction. First introduced before the City Commission on this llth day of August, 1952. • PASSED BY THE UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE MAYOR AND.T HE CITY COMMISSION of the City of • Yakima, on the 18th day of August, 1952. G. W. BURNS • Mayor GRANT E. HUEY Commissioner ATTEST: PEARL. BENJAMIN ( SEAL ) OWNE 0. CARPENTE City Clerk Commissioner • I hereby certify that the foregoing is full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. B -1389 entitled 9° AN ORDINANCE providing for increased compensation to city employees and providing for the expenditure of money not provided for in the budget adopted by the City Commission of the City of Yakima for the fiscal year of 1952; declaring that a, public emergency exists and estimating the amount of money required to meet the public emergency." as passed this. 18th day of August, 1952 and that same has been published as required by law • • 4 9 001 7 ,47 C I T Y CLERK • • IL