NS ORD-1997-045 Living Wage Ordinance

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S7 BOCC/JLink Living Wage Ordinance September 15, 1997 Page 3 minimums. Appendix 4,the Minneapolis-St. Paul Living Wage Policy, is an example of an ordinance that addresses requirements for companies receiving local subsidies. You have included this requirement for companies receiving loans from the new loan pool. 4. Which contract employees should be affected? If a large company has employees working on an Orange County contract, should all of that company's employees be subject to the Orange County minimum or just those working on the County project? 5. What is the appropriate living wage for Orange County? The report provided in May offers a variety of options. At your May meeting$7.94 was suggested . That represents the poverty level for a family of 4 adjusted for the Raleigh-Durham Region cost of living. 6. What are the next steps? As you may have read,Durham City is also considering adopting a living wage ordinance specifically for service contracts. They have scheduled two community forums for October 28 and November 13. Durham is planning to bring a Baltimore City official down to present at the forums. Baltimore was the first city to adopt a living wage ordinance and has 2 years experience in operating the program. It would be very useful for us to attend these forums in that we will be facing many of the same issues and may be able to gain some insight from their experiences. An opportunity for Orange County citizens to provide input on this issue could be scheduled for late November or December. This timing would allow us to gather your input to the questions we asked and suggest a design for our program. After you have had time for review, we will be contacting each of you receive your input regarding these questions. Following this we will be prepared to complete an analysis of operational and budgetary impacts and report back to the Board.