Appointing Vice Mayor
Council will be voting on the Mayor’s recommended appointment of a member of the Council to serve as Vice Mayor. The Mayor has not yet announced who he will nominate.
Where: San Jose City Council
When: January 24, 2017, 1:30pm
Link to item: http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&event_id=2668&meta_id=611437
Link to agenda: http://sanjose.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?event_id=ab9181ab-2ca0-483f-86c6-30ab43f6864a
City of Milpitas
Update on Countywide Minimum Wage Increase Study; city survey found businesses opposing any minimum wage increase
Council will be receiving a report and update from staff on the Santa Clara Countywide Minimum Wage Increase Study, and directing staff on next steps.
On June 9, 2016, the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, through individual city representatives, voted to approve a Countywide minimum wage increase without any exemptions. Of 15 cities represented, 13 votes yes, City of Gilroy voted no, and City of Milpitas abstained. Since then, the minimum wage increase of $15 by 2019 has been approved by cities of San Jose, Cupertino, Los Altos, and Palo Alto. Cities of Sunnyvale and Mountain View had already adopted a more aggressive schedule of $15 by 2018. Five cities have voted to not adopt the Countywide minimum wage increase and stay with the state level. Those cities are Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Los Gatos, and Los Altos Hills. City of Campbell adopted it for a more moderate increase but the City Council has since decided to rescind the second reading of the ordinance. Since the Cities Association’s meeting in June of 2016, Countywide effort to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019 is not a uniform policy. Cities are implementing minimum wage to meet their respective community’s economic and social needs.
As a supplement to the study, Milpitas Economic Development staff in collaboration with Milpitas Chamber of Commerce held three meetings on May 13, May 16 and June 6, 2016 with local business owners to review the newly increased state mandated minimum wage increase, the Countywide study, and a hybrid of the State minimum wage increase with incremental increases linked to the state CPI. Economic Development staff also mailed a survey to 1,579 businesses that have two or more employees, translated the survey into Mandarin, and conducted door-to-door outreach and phone surveys to reach additional small businesses. As of December 31, 2016, the total results of the survey were that: 81 voted to keep the minimum wage as is, 10 voted for the state’s increase with additional CPI, and 9 voted to increase it to $15 by 2019.
Where: Milpitas City Council
When: January 17, 2017, 7:00pm
Link to item: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_pdfs/council/2017/011717/Item_01.pdf
Link to agenda: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_pdfs/council/2017/011717/agenda.pdf
Staff report on Police Department’s stance on reporting undocumented immigrants to DHS
Staff will be presenting a report on the Milpitas Police Department’s stance on reporting undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security, in response to an information request from Councilmember Phan.
Where: Milpitas City Council
When: January 17, 2017, 7:00pm
Link to agenda: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/_pdfs/council/2017/011717/agenda.pdf
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