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COU'!CIL CHAM37-RS CIT': COU`JCIL
CITY HALL - CITY OF LODI
';'IDN SDAY, JULY 24, 1946
�;:rsuant to t -e adjournment t_,ken from its regular meeting of July 17,1946,
the City Council of the City of Lodi met in adjourned regular session at 3:C0
o'clock P.S. of Jednesday, July 24, 1946.
Councilmen Haskell, Lytle, Tolliver, Riggs and Rinn (Mayor) present, none
absent. City Clerk Blakely absent, De_:uty City Clerk Effie L. Griffin acting
in his stead. Heads of Departments present, Thomas G. Killelea, Clinton Henning.
Mayor Rini read a letter from Robert H. Mullen, General Chairman
CANCELLATION of the Country Fair held July 3 & 4 at Lodi Lake Park requesting
OF CHARGE TO that a charge of $42.61,for the hanging of a transformer and
COUNTRY FAIR electric current used,made by the City be cancelled as all the
proceeds of this fair inure to the benefit of Lodi Memorial Hosp-
ital. By unanimous consent, the City Clerk was directed to
comply with this request.
Representatives of the Lodi City !inployees Association were then
invited to submit their proposed salary schedules for adjustments
SALARY & lAGE and increases in compensation for the fiscal year beginning on
SCH DULES July 1, 1946. Robert McLane, for the association, presented a
SUM.1ITTED typewritten schedule as worked out by a committee consisting of
Fire Chief Polenske, Superintendent of Public Utilities Killelea
Robert G. McLane and Street Foremen John A. Miller. In informal
discussions relating to the proposed schedule, Mr McLane stated
that it was prepared by comparison of salaries and wages paid
by other cities, principally in Modesto; with wages in private
2 industry, principally Pacific Gas & Electric Company and in local
plants.
As the Council prepared to go into executive session on the salary
and wage proposal, City Engineer Henning asked that it consider
REPAIRS TO
advertising for renaring the alleys and streets named in his
STREETS AND
schedule submitted July 3rd and at that meeting laid over for
ALLEYS.
future consideration. Specifications for this work being pre-
SPSCIFICAT-
sented, together with a form for calling for bids to be opened
IONS AND
august 7th, 1946, both were approved and such advertisement
CALL FOR BIDS
directed by the adoption of P.esolution No. 1268 introduced by
RES. 1268
Councilman Tolliver, Lytle second, and adopted by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Tolliver, Lytle, Haskell, Riggs and Rinn
NOES: Councilmen, None. ABSENT: Councilmen, None.
HCFFMAN
On application of Supt. of Utilities Killelea, LeRoy Hoffman was
E12LOYED
employed as meter reader at $200.00 month
=`TIVE
At 10:00 o'clock ?,`d, the Council was resolved into Committee of
SESSION
the Whole and the room cleared, returning to open meeting at
10:30 P.M.
It was then moved by Councilman Lytle, Riggs second, and carried
without dissenting vote that the schedule of wages and salaries
SALARY
submitted and proposed by the City Employees association be
AND IAGE
accepted and adopted as the City's salary and wage scale for the
SCHEDULES
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1946. The City Clerk was instructed
ADOPTED.
to prepare such resolutions as might be necessary to rescind any
1946-47
previous action relating to salaries and wages, particularly such
as might appertain to the enactment of the method based on the
"cost of living index" of the Department of Labor.
Discussion followed as to methods necessary to obtain the funds
required to meet the increase in city expense occasioned by the
increased compensation granted as above stated. This matter
was scheduled for consideration at the next meeting.
At 10:35 o'clock the City Council adjourned on motion of Council-
man Rigs, such adjournment to be until 8:00 P.M. of ,Iednesday,
July 31, 1946.
attest:
Deputy City Clerk.
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