[bouldercouncilhotline] Re: Query about custodial employees

[Morzel, Lisa]

Gary,

The city cannot direct another entity regarding how that entity decides to pay its employees. The city can only make decisions regarding city employees.

Lisa

Lisa Morzel
Member, Boulder City Council
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On Sep 16, 2017, at 9:25 AM, Gary Urling <urling at gmail.com<mailto:urling at gmail.com>> wrote:

Lisa,
Can you explain or justify the council decision to require tax payers to pay a living wage and not require the same from businesses?   It seems like a city wide "living wage" would be a more balanced approach.  Otherwise, it give appearance of a council that is more business friendly than tax payer friendly.   As business who don't pay a living wage benefit from taxpayer provide affordable housing, the council is in both ways increasing business profits.

Gary

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Morzel, Lisa <MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov>> wrote:
Thanks, Mary Ann, for raising the questions and will look forward to staff's responses.

I add this recent article from The New York Times
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html?mwrsm=Facebook&referer=http://m.facebook.com<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/lN0LBGsrqOxHd?domain=mobile.nytimes.com>

Lisa

Lisa Morzel
Member, Boulder City Council
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On Sep 15, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Mary Ann Wilner <mawilner3951 at comcast.net<mailto:mawilner3951 at comcast.net>> wrote:


September 12, 2017


Ms. Joyce Lira

Human Resources Director

City of Boulder


Dear Ms. Lira,


As city staff and council members prepare the 2018 budget, I am writing on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Boulder County, to assure that custodial workers who are employed by for-profit companies with city contracts, will, indeed, receive pay raises as of 1/1/18.


From reading the staff report to council of April 25, 2017 and subsequent minutes of council discussions, it is our understanding that those custodial employees hired by city contractors will receive hourly pay rates of $15.67 beginning 1/1/18.


It is also our understanding that those custodial employees who work at least 29 hours weekly, are entitled to purchase benefits from their employers.


We are writing to inquire if these raises will, for certain, be incorporated into the city’s 2018 and following years’ budgets . We also remain concerned about pay raises for city-contracted landscape workers. When will council take this up for discussion and decisions?


Thank you for your attention to our request.


Kind regards,



Mary Ann Wilner, Ph.D.

Action Chair, LWVBC

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