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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Some City Employees Will Get Raises Earlier
By Dan McKay
Journal Staff Writer
Mayor Martin Chávez says the city's blue-collar, clerical, security and transit employees won't have to wait an extra six months for their annual pay raises.
Chávez said his budget office had found about $1.3 million that isn't needed in a workman's compensation fund. That will allow the city to provide pay raises to more of its employees on July 1, the mayor said. The raises are expected to be about 3 percent.
He had earlier announced that employees in non-public-safety departments would have to wait until Jan. 1 for their raises. Some employees still must wait, including management, executive and information-technology workers.
Lawrence Rodriguez, executive director of AFSCME, the union that represents thousands of city employees, said blue-collar and clerical workers "are very glad that the mayor is going to follow through on the commitment that he made to them last year" in negotiations.
The mayor has proposed a $475 million budget for the coming fiscal year, up about 3 percent.
The City Council's budget committee is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. today in the city-county Government Center
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