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AGENDA TITLE: Introduce Ordinance Amending Lodi Municipal Code Section 2.08.020 Relating to
City Council Salaries
MEETING DATE: April 2,2008
PREPARED BY: Randi Johl, City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Introduce ordinance amending Lodi Municipal Code Section
2.08.020 relatingto City Council salaries.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: At the Council meeting of March 19,2008, the City Council voted to
increase Council salaries from $500 a month to $860 a month as
prescribed for in Government Code Section 36516. In order to
implement said increase, it is necessaryto introduce the attached ordinance amending Lodi Municipal
Code Section 2.08.020. The salary increasewould not become effective until the next municipal election
in November 2008.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This will increase the annual cost by $21,600 upon approval.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: Fundingwill be made available in the 2008-09 budget.
Alans, Budget Manager
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City Clerk
APPROVED:
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ORDINANCE NO. O
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE ��
CITY OF LODI AMENDING LODI MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 2.08.020 RELATING TO CITY
COUNCIL SALARIES AS AUTHORIZED BY
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 36516 (a) (3)
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WHEREAS, Government Code Section 36516 (a) (3) sets forth that a city council
may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the city council receive a salary
up to and including five hundred dollars ($500) per month in cities over 50,000 up to and
including 75,000 in population; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 36516 (c) states that compensation of
council members may be increased beyond the amount by an ordinance or by an
amendment to an ordinance but the amount of the increase may not exceed an amount
equal to five percent (5%) for each calendar year from the operative date of the last
adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment is enacted. No
salary ordinance shall be enacted or amended which provides for automatic future
increases in salary.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LODI CITY COUNCIL:
SECTION 1. Lodi Municipal Code Section 2.08.020 relating to City Council salaries is
hereby amended as authorized by Government Code Section 36516 (a) (3) to read as
follows:
Each member of the council of the city shall receive, as salary, the sum of eight
hundred sixty dollars per month, as prescribed in Government Code Section
36516 (a) (3) in cities over fifty thousand in population, which shall be effective
December 3, 2008, and shall be payable from and after the operative date of the
ordinance codified in this chapter at the same time and in the same manner as
the salaries are paid to other officers and employees of the city.
SECTION 2. No Mandatory Duty of Care. This ordinance is not intended to and shall
not be construed or given effect in a manner which imposes upon the City, or any officer
or employee thereof, a mandatory duty of care towards persons or property within the
City or outside of the City so as to provide a basis of civil liability for damages, except as
otherwise imposed by law.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid
provision or application. To this end, the provisions of this ordinance are severable. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance irrespective of
the invalidity of any particular portion thereof.
SECTION 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed
insofar as such conflict may exist.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be published one time in the "Lodi News Sentinel," a
daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi, and shall
be in force and take effect December 3,2008.
Approved this _ day of April, 2008
JOANNE MOUNCE
Mayor
Attest:
RANDI JOHL
City Clerk
State of California
County of San Joaquin, ss.
I, Randi Johl, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, do hereby certify that Ordinance
No. was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi held
April 2, 2008, and was thereafter passed, adopted, and ordered to print at a regular
meeting of said Council held , 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
NOES; COUNCIL MEMBERS -
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
I further certify that Ordinance No. was approved and signed by the Mayor on the
date of its passage and the same has been published pursuant to law.
Approved as to Form:
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City Attorney
RANDIJOHL
City Clerk
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