Explanation
Background:
Various Recreation and Parks Aquatics Section employees missed seasonal pay increases and need to be compensated.
Emergency action is required to have wages paid before the end of the year to be included in the employee's 2005 W-2 forms.
Fiscal Impact:
$7,666.78 is required and budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to meet the financial obligation of these payments.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to make payment of $7,666.78 to various Recreation and Parks Aquatics Section employees for missed seasonal pay increases, and to declare an emergency. ($7,666.78)
Body
WHEREAS, due to exigent circumstances in the Recreation and Parks Department, a number of Aquatics Section employees failed to receive their seasonal pay increases in a timely manner; and
WHEREAS, Section 6(D)(2) of the MCP Salary Ordinance prohibits pay increases to be made retroactively; and
WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Department values the work of the Aquatics Staff and feels a moral obligation to ensure that they get compensated correctly; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds to have wages paid before the end of the year to be included in the employee's 2005 W-2 form; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That due to exigent circumstances in the Recreation and Parks Department, the City Auditor be and he is hereby authorize and directed to make payments to various Recreation and Parks Department Aquatics Section employees in the amount of $7,666.78.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $7,666.78, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund 285, Department No. 51-01, OCA Code 510073, to pay the cost thereof.
Object Level 3 Amount
1112 $6,183.26
1120 370.48
1160 837.84
1171 89.67
1173 185.53
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.