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RESOLUTIONS NO. /.<j - g 5
A RESOLUTION of the City of Port Angeles
requesting Congress to adopt a bill
exempting municipal employees from the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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WHEREAS, in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit
Authority, the United States Supreme Court has held that the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to compensation paid by
municipal governments to their employees; and
WHEREAS, existing compensation and job scheduling
arrangements best serve the public needs of the City of Port
Angeles and both our officials and employees wish to retain that
system; and
WHEREAS, the City's Personnel Division has determined
that it will cost the City of Port Angeles $126,000 per year in
overtime and other labor costs formerly not compensable, plus a
large sum in changing our records to meet FLSA requirements;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES that the City hereby urges its entire
Congressional delegation, as well as the Chairmen of the Subcom-
mittee on Labor Standards of the House Education and Labor Com-
mittee, and the Subcommittee on Labor of the Senate Labor and
Human Resources Committee, to each endorse and introduce the
proposed bill as attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and insert it in
the Congressional Record along with the fact that if this bill is
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not adopted it will cost the City of Port Angeles $126,000 per
year in overtime and other labor costs formerly not compensable,
plus a large sum in changing our records to meet FLSA
requirements.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 1i~day of
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, 1985.
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