COUNCIL FORGOES RAISE IN BUDGET VOTE POSTPONED DUE TO VACANCIES.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale City Council decided to delay a decision on whether to give themselves a pay raise, opting to wait until after voters fill the vacancies on the council. Under state law, the council is entitled to a 40 percent pay increase - 5 percent for each year from their last raise, which was 1992. The council will reconsider the pay raise in January, after voters fill the vacancies created earlier this year by the resignations of Kevin Carney car·ney n. Informal Variant of carny. and Shelley Sorsabal. ``We want to get the whole council on board and review,'' Mayor Jim Ledford said. ``It will also give us a chance to see which way the economy is going.'' Council members receive a monthly stipend sti·pend n. A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance. [Middle English stipendie, from Old French, from Latin st of $600 per month, a pay rate set by state law in 1992 for cities with populations over 75,000. The mayor receives a stipend of $1,000 a month. While delaying a decision on their own raises, the council approved a 2000-2001 budget which includes a 3.5 percent pay raise for staff. The nearly $138 million budget, which takes effect July 1, includes general fund expenditures of $34.3 million. The general fund finances the city's day-to-day operations. Among the highlights of the new budget are the additions of 16 full- time staff positions, bringing the total number of city staff to 240. Of those 16 positions, 12 are in the public works department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Among the construction projects included in the new budget is a $14.9 million effort to widen a portion of Avenue S, a major east-west corridor The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell. . The project involves replacing a two-lane bridge at 20th Street East with two bridges For the neighborhood in New York City, see . Two Bridges is an isolated location in the heart of Dartmoor National Park, in Devon, United Kingdom. It is situated around 2. , each large enough for three lanes of traffic. The city also plans to realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. 20th Street East to make it straighter, eliminating sharp bends in the roadway at its junction with Avenue S. Another transportation project is the construction of a transit center on the southwest corner of Technology Drive and Sixth Street East. The $3.77 million project will include the installation of a platform for the Metrolink and parking improvements. |
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