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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11601 ORD - 08/01/1973JRR:jkh:7- 24 -73; second dr. 41 AN ORDINANCE • ,r PRESCRIBING THE MAXIMUM EARNINGS TO BE CONSIDERED IN CALCULATING DEPOSITS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE MADE BY REASON OF CURRENT SERVICE OF EMPLOYEES OF THIS CITY WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIRE- MENT SYSTEM; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That annual earnings in excess of $8400 (maximum earnings subject to retirement deductions) which may be paid by the City of LL Corpus Christi, Texas, to any of its employees who are members of the Texas =fR. Municipal Retirement System, shall not be considered in calculating the amount to be withheld and the deposits and contributions to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of current service rendered by such employee to this City; and the maximum amount which shall be deducted each month for current service deposits to said System (where such compensa- tion is paid on a monthly basis) shall exclude payments in excess of one - twelfth (1 /12th) of the aforesaid sum of $8400 (maximum earnings subject to retirement deductions) which is prescribed above as the maximum annual earnings to be taken into account in calculating deposits and contributions on account of current service. SECTION 2. So long as payment of the increased rates, relative to City Fiscal 1972 -1973 authorizations and appropriations, of wages and salaries, including longevity and "cost -of- living adjustments ", are prohibited by the application of Federal Wage and Salary controls and regulations, no officer or employee of the City shall have, obtain or secure any title or right whatsoever in or to said increased rate and amount of pay, and no entitlement to accrued or retroactive payment of such increased rate and amount of pay is conferred or recognized by the July, 1973 amendments to the City Classification and Compensation Plan, by the City 1973 -1974 Budget Adoption Ordinance, by the City 1973 -1974 Budget Appropriation Ordinance, or otherwise. Whenever the said controls and regulations governing the wages and salaries paid by the City are terminated, the City Council will determine thereafter and during a control -free period a plan and schedule for payment of said increased rates and amounts commencing as of a date to be fixed subsequent to the termination of said controls and prior to August 1, 19774. 11601 r r ' SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this a City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 4. The effective date of the above changes shall be August 6, 1973. SECTION 5. The fact that there is an immediate need to make the provisions of the foregoing ordinance effective and a need to maintain an efficient administration of City affairs creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its intro- duction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, and having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the /at--day o 1973. ATTEST: AA,"_. _ City Secre ary / MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY OF /JULY, 712973- City/Attorney // A r TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi, Texas day of , 19 7l For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark •.R