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City Council Meeting: April 22, 2008 Santa Monica, California
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ORDINANCE NUMBER (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION
4.65.030 RELATING TO LIVING WAGE EXEMPTION
WHEREAS, In May of 2005, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2152 to require
that persons working on City contracts receive a living wage; and
WHEREAS, The findings approved as part of that ordinance establish that its
purposes include ensuring that those workers have sufficient income to pay the high
costs of living in the City, region, and state, to cover costs of health care, and to have
the leisure to participate in civic life; and
WHEREAS, The ordinance is broadly applicable to all City contracts over
$50,000 in amount, plus the annual adjustment, and has very limited exceptions
applicable only to government and non-profit contracts; and
WHEREAS, Recent experience has demonstrated that in some circumstances
strict adherence to the requirements of the ordinance is detrimental to the City's welfare
and does not serve the ordinance's purposes; and
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WHEREAS, Accordingly, the Council hereby finds that the scope of the
ordinance should be modified and a limited exemption. provision should be added to the
ordinance. to protect the City's welfare; and
WHEREAS, Costs of administering the annual adjustment have been
significantly greater than anticipated and are unduly burdening the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4.65.020 is hereby amended
to read as follows:
4.65.020 Minimum wage payment requirements for
City contractors.
Any contractor providing services to the City of
Santa Monica pursuant to a contract in the amount of Fifty
Four Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($54,200.00) or more
shall pay at least the minimum wage to any employee
working on that contract for work done on the contract.
(Added by Ord. No. 2152CCS § 1 (part), adopted 3/8/05)
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4.65.030 is hereby amended
to read as follows:
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4.65.030 Exemption
The requirements of this Chapter shall not apply to
employers that are government agencies, City grantees,
nonprofit corporations, or corporations providing banking
services.
(Added by Ord. No. 2152CCS § 1 (part), adopted
3/8/05)
SECTION 3. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or appendices
thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such
inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent
necessary to effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of
any-court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that
it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection,
sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid. or unconstitutional without
regard to whether any portion of the ordihance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage
of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in
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the official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall
become effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
MA SHA J ES MO RIE
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Approved and adopted this 22nd day of April, 2
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Beth Sanchez, Assistant City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 2260 (CCS) had its introduction April 8th, 2008, and was
adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on April 22nd, 2008, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members
Noes: Council members:
Abstain: Council members:
Absent: Council members:
Genser, McKeown
Mayor Pro Tem Bloom, Mayor Katz
None
None
Holbrook, O'Connor, Shriver
A summary of Ordinance No. 2260 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to California
Government Code Section 40806.
ATTEST:
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eth S nchez, Assisi t City Clerk