Denver Charter Changes for the November 2003 Election
Here's an editorial from the Denver Post [August 1, 2003, "City workers must face reality"] calling on city workers to accept Mayor Hickenlooper's changes to the City Charter. Thanks for the advice Post. City workers will get one vote each in November if they live in Denver. The Charter Changes will be on the ballot and Coyote Gulch predicts that they will pass with a wide margin. It's not clear yet how Council and the Mayor will include workers in shaping the new compensation ordinance nor how the new merit plan will be structured and implemented. Many City employees are confused about what is in the Charter changes because compensation for Career Service employees is a complicated combination of Charter provisions and Career Service rules. The merit plan will come from changes in Career Service. From the editorial, "The dilemma facing Denver city workers is simple: Do you forsake your guaranteed raise to save a fellow employee's job, or possibly even your own? Or do you cling to the status quo and watch hundreds of workers, maybe even you, march off to the unemployment line?" It's not that simple, Post, and you know it. After the Charter is amended compensation will be determined, not by the Mayor, but by City Council through ordinance. The mechanism for pay recommendations is now mandated by the Charter. It's unclear what methods will be used for input into future ordinances.
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