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1ORDINANCE NO. �f - 7 y 2 AN ORDINANCE establishing regular salaries for Council members of the 3 City of Everett, establishing a date for the salaries to take effect, and retaining salary levels in effect and to be in effect prior to the 4 effective date of this ordinance. 5 6 WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of Everett was ratified on June 25, 1968; and 7 WHEREAS, Section 2.8 of the Everett City Charter establishes interim 8 compensation for elective officers until such time as a regular salary ordinance is 9 passed; and 10 WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 477-77 establishes a regular salary for City Council 11 members effective January 14, 1980; and 12 WHEREAS, it is important to recognize the increasing complexity of good City 13 government which creates additional time commitments and responsibility for Council 14 members; and 15 WHEREAS, it is appropriate to provide for an orderly progression of salary rates; 16 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: 17 Section 1: The salary of each City Council member shall be increased by the 18 same percentage as the annual average salary increase for all non-union employees of 19 the County of Snohomish, a governmental entity, except the percentage shall not 20 exceed the percentage of annual average salary increase of all City of Everett non- 21 union employees for the same period of time. The average percentage increase of all 22 non-union employees of Snohomish County shall be determined by using the calculations 23 of the office of the Snohomish County Commissioners. These calculations shall be the 24 average percentage salary increase given all Snohomish County non-union employees for 25 the time period February 1 through January 31 last preceding the date as City Council 26 salary adjustment for which such calculations are to be used. 27 Section 2: The salary increase as specified herein shall be given each year on 28 February 1 beginning February 1, 1982. 29 30 31 32