HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 9/22/1943RECESSED REGULAR MEETING.
jubbock, Texas, Sept. 22, 1943.
The City Commission of the �'ity of Lubbock, Texas, met at 8 P.M. in
Recessed Regular Session, Recessed from Regular Meeting of Sept. 9, 1943,
at the Regular Meeting Place in the `'ity Hall, the following members
thereof being present, to -wit:
Mayor C E Slaton, Commissioners W.B. i'rice, Hub Jones, J.O. Jones,
Garland Newsom, City attorney Lurwood H. Bradley, City Manager M.A.
Smith, Jr., City Secretary Lavenia Williams.
Absent: None.
This meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the possibility
and necessity of increasing the salaries and wages of the City employees.
After a thorough discussion and consideration of the matter, the
Commission was unanimously of the otiinion that the bonus system which
was adopted on November 2, 1942, -should be supplemented with a salary
increase to the oity employees or the bonus plan should be changed so
as to increase the wages and salaries of employees participating in
the bonus plan, approximately $10.00 per month, based on thepresent
cost of living index of 123.0, as compiled by the U.S. Dept. of ]Labor.
v1hereupon, motion was made by Commissioner Hub Jones, seconded by
Commissioner W.B. Price, carried unanimously, that the bonus plan as
adopted by the City Commission on November 2, 1942, be abandoned and
that effective as of September 16, 1943, the following monthly bonus
plan, based on the cost of living index, as published by the United
States Department of Labor, be adopted.
':he plan as adopted being as follows:
No. 1 - The base living wage rate to be jpl20.00 per Month
No. 2 - the bass; cost -of -living index figure to be used as the
base of this plan to be 100.00.
No. 3 - The monthly cost of living index to be used in
calculating the amount of the monthly bonus shall be
the latest monthly cost -of -living index (all items)
figure available from the U.S. Department of Labor and
shall be taken to the nearest whole number.
No. 4 - One half of the amount of the bonus as figured
according to this plan shall be added to the salary
or wages of each employee participating in the bonus
-'-n, on each pay roll period. i'u11 time monthly salaried
loyees are entitled to 100% of the monthly bonus.
amount of the bonus to be paid employees who mrk
an hourly basis shall be a per cent of the total
us based on the percentage of time the employee worked
of the possible regular working hours for the particular
at which he is employed; provided, however, that no
loyee shall receive more than 100 per cent of the bonus.
thly salary employees who receive approximately 50% of
their salary from the county, shall be entitled to 506 of the bonus.
Monthly salary employees that are not considered as full time employees
shall not be entitled to the bonus.
An example of how the amount of the bonus will be calculated is as
follows:
-}he cost -of -living index as furnished by the U.S. Department of Labor
for riugust 15, 1943, was 123.2, based on the 1935-1939 base index of
100.00.
123.2 (use 123.0, the nearest whole number) minus 100.00 (base index of
this plan) equals 23.0%.
23% of $120.00 (the base living wage rate) equals $27.6 the amount of
the full monthly bonus. The amount of the bonus to be paid each
employee to be as set out in Item No. 4 above.
Upon motion by Commissioner Hub Jones, seconded by Commissioner W.B.
price, carried unanimously, the following changes in base salaries
were authorized: .
B.O. McCasland - Increase from $200 to 4225.00 per Month
Lewis Kittrell - Increased from 4 160 to $175.00 per Month
J.L. Stotts - Increase from 0145.80 to-p150.00 per Month
C.G. Bell - Increase from 0190.00 to.4200.00 per Month
No further business coming up for consideration, the kiommission
adjourned.
Read and approved this the 14th
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day of Uct. , 1943.
Mayor