C4E-Ref- FCWPC - Indexing Living Wage Rate For FY 2014-15 Pursuant To Ord 2010-E MIAMI BEACH
City of Miomi Beoch, ,l700 Convention Center Drive, Miomi Beoch, Florido 33,l39, www.miomibeochfl.gov
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor Philip Levine and Members
FROM: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
DATE: July 23,2014
SUBJECT: REFERRAL TO FINANCE AND DITYWIDE PROJECTS COMMITTEE -A DISCUSSION ON INDEXING THE LIVING WAGE RATE FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2014-2015 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OPTIONS
PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE 2010.3682.
ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION
Refer the item to the Finance and Citywide Projects Committee for discussion.
BACKGROUND
ln this fiscal year 2013-2014, the hourly living wage rate paid to employees of City
contactors is set at the fiscal year 2012-2013 rate of $11.28lhr with health benefits of at
least $1 .64lhr, and $12.92lhr without benefits. Prior to approval of the fiscal year 2013-
2014 budget, the City Commission did not increase the ling wage rate for 2013-2014
from2012-2013 rate pursuantto provision 1(b) noted below. lf the intention of the City
Commission is to index (increase) the current living wage rate for subsequent fiscal
year(s), the options, pursuant to Section 2-408 (d) of the City Code entitled, lndexinq,
are as follows:
1. lndex for inflation using the Miami Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA)
Consumer Price lndex for all Urban Consumers (CP!-U) Miami/Ft. Lauderdale,
issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
a. Notwithstanding the preceding, no annual index shall exceed three
percent (3%);
b. Nor shall an annual increase exceed the corresponding annual
compensation increase (if any) provided to unrepresented (i.e.
unclassified) city employees.
2. Elect not to index the living wage rate in any particular year, if the Commission
determined it would not be fiscally sound to implement same.
The City Code also requires that the determination to index (or not index) the living wage
rate shall be considered annually during the city commission's review and approval of
the city's annual operating budget.
The Administration is seeking guidance from the Mayor and City Commission regarding
the living wage rate for fiscal year 2014-2015.
City
Agenda ltem C?E
Date 7.23-ly256
Commission Memo Referral to Finance and Citywide Project Committee - Living Wage
July 23,2011
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CONCLUSION
The Administration recommends that the Mayor and City Commission refer this item to
the Finance and Citywide Projects Committee for a discussion on indexing the living
wage rate in accordance with the options pursuant to Ordinance 2010-3682.
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