ORDINANCE _________________

AN ORDINANCE related to the enforcement of the City's sick and safe time regulations, increasing appropriations in the 2011 Adopted Budget for the Seattle Office for Civil Rights; and creating a position in the Seattle Office for Civil Rights; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.

WHEREAS, the City Council is considering legislation that would require employers operating within the City of Seattle to provide their employees with minimum amount of paid sick and safe leave by; and

WHEREAS, this legislation gives the Seattle Office for Civil Rights responsibility for implementing and enforcing the regulations related to sick and safe leave; and

WHEREAS, the Seattle Office for Civil Rights cannot effectively fulfill these responsibilities without additional staffing; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses pertaining to enforcement of the City's sick and safe time requirements, incurred or to be incurred in 2011, but for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time the 2011 Budget was adopted, the appropriations for the following item in the 2011 Budget is increased from the fund shown as follows:

Item	Fund	Department	Budget Control Level	Amount
1	General Subfund (00100)	Seattle Office for Civil Rights	Civil Rights (X1R00)	$20,900
Total				$20,900

Section 2. To carry out purposes of the appropriation in Section 1 of this ordinance, the following new Civil Rights Analyst position is created in the Seattle Office for Civil Rights:

Department	Position Title	Position Status	Number
Seattle Office for Civil Rights:	Civil Rights Analyst	Full-time	1

The Director of the Office for Civil Rights is authorized to fill this position subject to Civil Service personnel rules and laws.

Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by a three-fourths vote of the City Council the ____ day of _________________, 2011, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this

_____ day of ___________________, 2011.

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President __________of the City Council

Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2011.

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Michael McGinn, Mayor

Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2011.

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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)

Ben Noble / MSL Leg Paid Sick Time Staffing Ord July 15, 2011 Version # 2