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Santa Cruz County, CA November 7, 2006 Election
Measure G
Minimum Wage Increase
City of Santa Cruz
Initiative

8,693 / 39.05% Yes votes ...... 13,571 / 60.95% No votes

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Results as of December 1 10:01am, 100.00%% of Precincts Reporting (44/44)
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Shall the City adopt an ordinance requiring employers in the City of Santa Cruz to pay a minimum wage of $9.25 per hour rather than the $6.75 per hour minimum wage required by State law?

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Impartial Analysis from City Attorney
This initiative, if adopted by the voters, would serve to add a chapter to the Santa Cruz Municipal Code requiring the payment of a minimum wage to persons employed in the City of Santa Cruz. The current minimum wage required by California state law is $6.75 per hour. This ordinance would set the minimum wage paid to employees in the City of Santa Cruz at $9.25 per hour and provide for indexed annual minimum wage increases determined by reference to the Bay Area Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers Consumer Price Index. Small businesses which employ ten or fewer employees and nonprofit corporations would initially be required to pay a minimum wage of $8.00 per hour; however, beginning on January 1, 2008 small businesses and non-profit corporations would be required to pay the same minimum wage paid by other employers subject to the ordinance. Employees entitled to the minimum wage called for by the ordinance would include all persons who, for an employer, perform at least two hours of work a week in the City of Santa Cruz. Employers would be required to pay the minimum wage called for by the ordinance beginning on January 1, 2007.

The proposed ordinance contains additional provisions which would require covered employers to post current and prospective minimum wage rates at the place of employment and to notify covered employees of current and prospective minimum wage rates. The ordinance would prohibit employer retaliation in response to an employee's exercise of rights conferred by the ordinance or employer discrimination against any such employee. The ordinance would also authorize the City of Santa Cruz Finance Department, or another City department or agency designated by City Council resolution, to administer and enforce the provisions of the ordinance. To this end the Finance Department, or other City department or agency, would be authorized to conduct administrative hearings relative to disputes between employers, employees and other affected persons arising out of the interpretation, application and enforcement of the ordinance. The ordinance would also authorize the City as well as any person aggrieved by a violation of the ordinance to take legal action in court to enforce the ordinance and to seek monetary damages caused by ordinance violations. Finally the ordinance would require the administering City department or agency to compute and publish by December 1 of each year the minimum wage rate for the following calendar year.

s/ John G. Barisone
City Attorney

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