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Authorizing Fiscal Year 2024 Non-Union Cost-of-Living Wage Increase
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WHEREAS, for departments under the direction of the County Board, the County desires to formally authorize a cost-of-living wage increase of 3% for the County's non-union employees for Fiscal Year 2024, excluding employees whose salaries or wages are set by collective bargaining agreement, statute, ordinance, or employment contract; and
WHEREAS, the County Board desires to formally authorize a cost-of-living wage increase of 3% for the County's department heads specified in section 2-48(A)(3) of the Kane County Code, including the Executive Director of Information Technologies and Building Management, the Supervisor of Assessments, the Director of Development, the Director of the Office of Community Reinvestment, the Executive Director of the Health Department, the Director of Communications for KaneComm, the Director of Environmental and Water Resources, the Director of the Office of Emergency Management, the Executive Director of the Human Resource Management Department and the Executive Director of the Finance Department; and
WHEREAS, the County Board desires to formally authorize a cost-of-living wage increase of 3% for the administrator, deputy administrator(s) and wardens of the County's Animal Control department specified in section 5-3 of the Kane County Code; and
WHEREAS, the County Board has provided funding in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget for a cost-of-living wage increase of 3% for the County's eligible employees effective with the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023, for each individual employee within each department active on December 1, 2023; and
WHEREAS, for Elected Offices, the County Board has provided funding in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget for an average wage increase of 3% for non-union employees, effective the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023, to be allocated among individual employees within each Elected Office at the discretion of the Elected officeholder; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Kane County Board that a 3% cost-of-living wage increase for Fiscal Year 2024, effective the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023, is hereby authorized for each non-union employee active on December 1, 2023 excluding those whose salaries or wages are set by collective bargaining agreement, statute, ordinance, or employment contract; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Kane County Board that a 3% cost-of-living wage increase for Fiscal Year 2024, effective the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023, is hereby authorized for the County's department heads specified in section 2-48(A)(3) of the Kane County Code; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Kane County Board that a 3% cost-of-living wage increase for Fiscal Year 2024, effective the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023, is hereby authorized for the administrator, deputy administrator(s) and wardens of the County's Animal Control department specified in section 5-3 of the Kane County Code; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that for Elected Offices, the Kane County Board has provided funding in the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget for an average wage increase of 3% for non-union employees, effective the first pay period beginning on or after December 1, 2023 to be allocated to employees at the discretion of the Elected officeholder.
Passed by the Kane County Board on November 21, 2023.
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John A. Cunningham, MBA, J.D. Corinne M. Pierog MA, MBA
Clerk, County Board Chairman, County Board
Kane County, Illinois Kane County, Illinois
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