city of tacoma
File #: RES39240    Version: 1 Name: Minimum Wage Petition Transmittal
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 7/7/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/21/2015 Final action: 7/21/2015
Title: A resolution transmitting a ballot measure to the Pierce County Auditor to be placed on the ballot for the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, which reads: CITY OF TACOMA INITIATIVE NO. 1 Initiative No. 1 concerns establishing a minimum wage for the City of Tacoma. This measure would require employers of a certain size to pay employees who work in the City of Tacoma, or maintain, report to, or are supervised from, an office in the City, an hourly wage of not less than fifteen dollars ($15.00), adjusted annually by the rate of inflation. This measure would also create a citizen commission to monitor the City's administration and enforcement of the minimum wage requirements, and make violation a crime. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 39240, 2. City Council Action Memorandum

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A resolution transmitting a ballot measure to the Pierce County Auditor to be placed on the ballot for the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, which reads:

 

CITY OF TACOMA
INITIATIVE NO. 1

 

Initiative No. 1 concerns establishing a minimum wage for the City of Tacoma.

 

This measure would require employers of a certain size to pay employees who work in the City of Tacoma, or maintain, report to, or are supervised from, an office in the City, an hourly wage of not less than fifteen dollars ($15.00), adjusted annually by the rate of inflation. This measure would also create a citizen commission to monitor the City’s administration and enforcement of the minimum wage requirements, and make violation a crime. 

 

Should this measure be enacted into law?

                     Yes...........                     [   ]

                     No..........                     [   ]

 

[Doris Sorum, City Clerk; Elizabeth Pauli, City Attorney]