COUNCIL VOTES FOR PAY INCREASE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - Although it won't won't Contraction of will not. won't will not won't will kick in for close to two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Palmdale City Council voted to give itself a pay raise of 10 percent, the first pay hike approved by the council in nearly 10 years. The pay raise will boost the monthly salaries for council members from $600 to $660 while increasing the mayor's pay from $1,000 to $1,100. The pay raise, however, will not go into effect until a new council is installed after the November 2003 municipal election. The last time a pay raise was approved for the City Council was in April 1992. Under state law, the council could have increased its pay 5 percent for each of 10 years from the previous pay raise. ``I think the demands (on council members) is much greater than it was,'' said Mayor Pro Tem [Latin, For the time being.] An abbreviation used for pro tempore, Latin for "temporary or provisional." A person who acts as a temporary substitute serves pro tem. Mike Dispenza. ``There are more expenses and it is more time consuming.'' The council also decided to return to having two meetings a month instead of one. Council meetings will be held on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, except in November and December when there will be only one meeting each month because of the holidays. The council had operated with two meetings a month through most of the 1990s, but dropped to one meeting a month in June 2000 in part because resignations had reduced the council to just three members. The ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been establishing the two-meeting schedule needs to be approved on a second reading by the council before becoming effective. ``I think the feeling was we were going too late (with their meetings) and not giving people adequate time to address us,'' Dispenza said. ``This will give people a feeling we're more accessible.'' |
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