06-07-33 Council Special Meeting Minutes

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repeal any former salary ordinance which fixed salaries for a four year period.' We wish to make it very clear and emphatic that any ordinance enacted at tints time becomes legal and binding under all circumstances, without the necessity of voluntary ` reductions through resolution. The Mayor himself may force still further voluntary reductioc if he chooses, although such further reductions would not be legally binding, but that is he affair.' Said Section 3 reads as follows: Sec. 3 (a) Any salary of -any officer of any municipal sub — divisions or taxibing unit of this state, as fixed by this'actt, shall -be construed to be the maxiamum amount which any suchnoff icer shall receive as compensation for services rendered to such sub - division: or taxing unit, but nothing eontained'in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit any board, council, commission, officer or other legally constituted authority having the power to fix salaries, to fix the salary :t of any officer subject to the jurisdiction of such legally constituted authority, at a lesser amount than is prescribed in this= act. The foregoing section, as we are advised, is in no particular altered or affected in its application to salaries for the present year by the Acts of the regular session of the. legislature of this year, 1933, since the provisions of the latter are..made to apply to salaries;L or to effect salary changes only after January 1, 1934. Regarding the claim that the Mayor by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 60, Section 1, at page 427 of the Acts of 1933, has, by executive order, if such happens to be the fact, decreased certain appropriations, and certain appropriations applying to salaries, and thereby assumes to supersede, annul and foreclose legislative authority of ,the council, we ax advised and report to the council that said Chapter 60 gives to both the common council and 't mayor concurrent authority and jurisdiction to reduce appropriations atnany time during the,, year, but that the common council has the additional and the sole Iegisbatsmive authority to fix salaries, and that its legislative acts in:so fixing salaries cannot under any construction of the law be restricted or b nullified by any executive act or order on the pax of the Mayor.' There has not been, and there is not now, any misundertanding such as to preclude the common council from acting within its rights as stated upon the ordinance before it.` Dated this 7th day-of June, 1933. Geo.' W. Goetz John C. Nelsom On.Motion of Councilman Goetz the Report was adopted. Motion carried. On Motion of. 0ouncim1man Jaworski the Council adjourned at 7:40 o'clock P:' M. Motion carried. - ATTEST Aa�^. ,Oz iI/"o. ni 0 PRO D PRESIDENT. e