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Home My WebLink AboutNS ORD-1998-018 Personnel Ordinance Revision - Living Wage rj o iQ,aD - !9 4 k-o l9 Orange County Board of Commissioners Action Agenda Item Abstract Meeting Date: June 22, 1998 Action Agenda Item No. 8-k_ Subject: Personnel Ordinance Revision — Living Wage Department: Personnel Public Hearing: Yes No X Budget Amendment Needed: Yes No X Attachment(s): Information Contact: Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director Draft Personnel Ordinance Revision - Extension 2550 Living Wage Telephone Number: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 Purpose: To amend the Orange County Personnel Ordinance to establish $8.00 an hour as the minimum wage for an Orange County employee except for certain student learners, as provided in the Ordinance. Background: At its May 26, 1998 meeting, the Board of Commissioners received a report on the Living Wage Ordinance for Orange County. At that meeting, the Board voted to approve an amendment to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance to establish a living wage for the employees of Orange County as County policy. The attached draft Personnel Ordinance revision is provided to implement the Board's decision as to the living wage for Orange County employees. The attached Personnel Ordinance revision extends the $8.00 an hour living wage to Orange County employees both permanent and temporary. Currently the minimum hourly salary for a permanent employee is $8.24 an hour. Thus the proposed Personnel Ordinance revision would have no impact on permanent County employees. As to temporary employees, there currently are about 30 temporary County employees at salaries below $8.00 an hour. The proposed Personnel Ordinance revision would cover temporary County employees except for certain student learners. r 2 * i As specified in the attached draft, high school students and interns would not be covered. We estimate about five to 10 temporary employees would be exempted from the $8.00 an hour minimum under this provision. The estimated annual cost to increase temporary employee wages to $8.00 an hour is approximately $18,000. Recommendation: The Manager recommends the Board approve the attached Personnel Ordinance revision effective July 1, 1998. Me\polw.doc June 14,1998 3 Attachment Draft New Orange County Personnel Ordinance Provision Article V,Pay Plan,Section 19.0 Living Wage 19.0 Living Wage (Effective July 1, 1998) 19.1 Each Orange County employee,whether appointed as permanent or temporary, is paid a minimum hourly wage of at least$8.00 per hour except as provided in Item 19.2 below. 19.2 A high school student employed as a temporary employee or other temporary employee working for educational purposes as determined by the department head and Personnel Director may be paid less than$8.00 per hour so long as the employee is paid at least the Federal Minimum Wage. F:\e\lw.doc June 14, 1998 I 0.e10 - X51961- 0 / � 1 Marvin Block appointed for an unexpired term ending June 30, 2000 �T 2 3 Agricultural Districts Advisory Board. 4 Nancy Goodwin reappointed for a term ending June 30, 2001 5 6 b. Minutes 7 The Board approved the minutes for the Oct. 6, 1997 regular meeting; Oct. 30 1997 bimonthly work session; 8 Nov. 3, 1997 regular meeting; and, Nov. 20, 1997 work session on solid waste. 9 10 C. Renewal agreement—Town of Hillsborough fire inspections 11 This item was moved to the end of the Consent Agenda for separate consideration. 12 13 d. Lease approval—Cedar Grove/Efland Cheeks Family Resource Center, Northern Human 14 Services Center 15 The Board approved and authorized the Chair to sign a renewal lease with the Cedar Grove/Efland Cheek 16 Family Resource Center to occupy space at the Northern Human Services Center. 17 18 e. Budget Ordinance Amendment#11 19 The Board approved budget ordinance amendments and grant project amendments incorporated in these ?0 minutes by reference. ?1 22 f. Employee Assistance Program contract renewal 23 This item was moved to the end of the Consent Agenda for separate consideration. M ?5 g. Petition for addition—Wagon Farm Road and Wagon Farm Court, Cheeks Township ?6 The Board approved a petition from the N.C. Department of Transportation to add Wagon Farm Road and ?7 Wagon Farm Court in the Wagon Farm Trail subdivision, Cheeks Township, to the state-maintained secondary road ?8 system. ?9 30 h. HOME Program—OPC Acquisition Program 31 The Board approved and authorized the Chair to sign a development agreement with the Orange-Person- 32 Chatham Mental Health Agency for HOME funding in the amount of$40,000 for rental property acquisition and 33 rehabilitation. 34 35 L Housing rehabilitation contract award 36 The Board approved two housing rehabilitation contracts with MDH Construction Company for rehabilitation 37 of properties at 205 Efland Ave., in the amount of$37,140; 605 Lipscomb Grove Church Road, in the amount of$36,000; 38 and 519 Lipscomb Grove Church Road, in the amount of$36,000. 39 10 L Amendments to Orange County regional landfill tipping fee schedule H The Board approved increasing the landfill tipping fee from$35 for mixed solid waste and construction and 12 demolition materials, to$38 per ton for those materials, to become effective July 1, 1998. 13 14 k. Personnel ordinance revision—living wage 45 The Board approved an amendment to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance to establish a minimum 16 wage of$8 per hour for most County employees. 17 18 I. Audit contract for June 30, 1998 fiscal year 19 The Board awarded and authorized the Chair to sign a contract for Deloitte and Touche L.L.P. for auditing i0 services for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, at an estimated cost of$56,300. it i2 M. Fixed asset capitalization policy 53 The Board approved adoption of a policy regarding the valuation of fixed assets for accounting purposes, i4 which would classify fixed assets as those whose useful life exceeds one year, and whose unit cost exceeds$1,000, of i5 those to which a serial number is assigned by the manufacturer. i6 i7 n. Property tax refunds/release i8 The Board approved two requests for property tax refunds and one request for release of property taxes i9 as listed below: