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Show Commission Votes Pay Hikes From Dec. 1 For City Employes Individual members of the Salt Lake City Commission this week were determining how to distribute planned pay raises for employes in their departments. The commission, in adopting J planner, city attorney and city traffic engineer and others, were not included in the citizens com-'mittee com-'mittee report on salary adjustments. adjust-ments. Any adjustments for them will have to be made by the A a 1960 city budget of $12,832,743 some $818,501 more than the 1959 budget, allowed some $800,-000 $800,-000 for salary increases to city employes retroactive to Dec. 1. City Auditor Louis E. Holley said every effort will be made to have the pay raises on checks before Christmas. It did not appear ap-pear on Dec. 15 checks, however, because the various amounts of increases had not been worked out. Commissioners agreed that the money would be distributed on a percentage basis as nearly as possible to conform with the schedule submitted by the Citizens Citi-zens Committee on Employment Administration. In explaining distribution of the money Adiel F. Stewart said: "The professional people, such as the city engineer, the city enure commission. "There will be so much money available for each department and it will be up to each commissioner com-missioner to make salary adjustments adjust-ments for his employes." It was pointed out that only by each commissioner taking a percentage cut of a total of $200,000 in their operating budgets bud-gets could the $800,000 be accumulated accu-mulated for the pay raises. The salary fund also was helped by revising water revenues to boost them $100,000 while another " $100,000 came from sale of city owned land. This $400,000 added to another $400,000 surplus left over from estimated 1960 revenues after meeting department budget requests re-quests ended in accumulating the $800,000, it was pointed out. |