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10-R-63
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, House Bill 189 would establish a minimum salary of $500 per
month for policemen in Illinois municipalities with 75,000 or, more inhabitants
but less than 150,000 inhabitants; and
WHEREAS, House Bill 190 would establish a minimum salary of $500 per
month for firemen in Illinois Municipalities with 75,000 or more inhabitants but
less than 2003000 inhabitants; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly should limit itself to establishing
minimum wage requirements that are necessary to guarantee all workers a subsist-
ence level and should, in accordance with the home rule principle, rely on
elected local officials to make necessary and proper decisions on salaries and
• working conditions for municipal employees; and
WHEREAS, labor market conditions, wage levels, the cost -of -living,
and municipal financial capacities vary considerably in the various Illinois
municipalities that would be affected by the $500 per month minimum salary re-
quirements, and House Bills 189 and 190 do not take these variations into account;
and
WHEREAS, Evanston and other Illinois municipalities already face
difficult financial problems, and the enactment of House Bills 189 and 190 would
raise costs and taxes and thereby intensify these problems;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Evanston, Illinois, hereby declaresits opposition to the passage of House Bills
189 and 190 and any other bills having essentially the same effect that may be
introduced; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Manager are hereby
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authorized and requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to Governor Otto
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Kerner and to each member of the Illinois General Assembly, and to take all
other practicable steps, in cooperation with the Illinois Municipal League,
to encourage the defeat of House Bills 189 and 190 and any similar bills.
ATTEST:
/s/ Maurice F. Brown
City Clerk
Adopted February 25 ,1963
Recorded ,1963
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
/s/ Jack M. Siegel
Corporation Counsel
APPROVED Figh Is/ John D. Emery
. Mayor