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<br />CITY COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE <br /> <br />November 1, 2006 <br />4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. <br /> <br />San Leandro City Hall <br />835 East 14th Street <br />San Leandro, California <br />(Sister Cities Gallery) <br /> <br />HIGHLIGHTS <br /> <br />Committee Members: (Chair) Mayor Young, Councilmembers Starosciak and Stephens (absent). <br /> <br />City Staff Present: <br /> <br />City Manager Jermanis, Assistant City Manager Hollister, Finance <br />Director Baloca, Human Resources Director Caire, Deputy Finance <br />Director Rodriguez, and Budget and Compliance Manager Chan. <br /> <br />Public Present: <br /> <br />Residents Lou Filipovich, Marianne Camp, Craig Williams, Mike Katz, <br />Charles Gilcrest, and Liana Molina. <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order at 4:05 p.m. <br /> <br />1. Discussion Regarding Living Wage <br /> <br />City Manager Jermanis introduced the discussion by stating that living wage is a controversial <br />topic and could have wide ramifications on the City's operations; therefore, it warrants <br />continuous discussion to establish the definition of living wage and the goals to be incorporated <br />in a new ordinance. <br /> <br />Jermanis explained that living wage is a recent approach adopted by some government agencies. <br />Generally, the prevailing wage approach is used and is applied to workers employed by an <br />agency's outside contractors. Most of the time, the ordinance does not apply to agencies <br />themselves. State, County and local government employees' salary and wage rate structures are <br />often developed by benchmarking against each other and are often comparable to prevailing <br />wage levels. Living wage requirements are most often enforced on city service contractors, <br />businesses leasing city property, and business receiving city assistance above a certain amount. <br /> <br />Jermanis also explained that the City currently mandates any company bidding on City projects <br />or service contracts to pay prevailing wage. In order to enforce compliance, the City does require <br />added resources for monitoring its prevailing wage contractors. <br /> <br />Some City's part-time employees are paid less than the suggested living wage. If the pay for <br />these employees were to be brought up to the living wage level, then the City's whole wage scale <br />for all job classifications would most likely have to be escalated accordingly. <br />