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Item No. 17-200
Date: June 12, 2017
Item/Subject: Ordinance, Repealing Chapter 179 of the Code of the City of Bangor -
Minimum Wage
Responsible Department: Legal
Commentary:
In 2015 the City Council of the City of Bangor passed an amendment to the Code of the City of
Bangor to establish a minimum wage in amount higher than the state or federal government.
The effective date of the Ordinance is July 1, 2017.
Since that time an effort to place an initiative to increase the state-wide minimum wage on the
November 2016 ballot was successful. The voters of Maine approved this initiative and the
state-wide minimum wage will increase to an amount greater than that in the City ordinance. A
municipality may not have a minimum wage less than the State minimum wage. Therefore,
there is no longer a need or purpose to the City's minimum wage ordinance.
This Ordinance, if passed, will repeal the City's minimum wage ordinance.
Manager's Comments:
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17-200
JUNE 12, 2017
Assigned to Councilor Nealley
CITY OF BANGOR
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(TITLE.) Ordinance, Repealing Chapter 179 of the Code of the City of Bangor, Minimum Wage,
WHEREAS, in 2015 the City Council of the City of Bangor passed an amendment to the Code of
the City of Bangor to establish a minimum wage in amount higher than the state or federal
government; and
WHEREAS, the effective date of the Ordinance increasing the minimum wage in the City of
Bangor is July 1, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the voters of Maine approved an initiative on the November 2016 ballot to increase
the state-wide minimum wage to an amount greater than that in the City' ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City cannot have a minimum wage less than the State minimum wage; and
WHEREAS, the state minimum wage approved by the voters, being greater than the City's
minimum wage, pre-empts the City's ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR THAT,
THAT Chapter 179 of the Code of the City of Bangor is hereby repealed and deleted in its entirety.
IN CITY COUNCIL
JUNE 12, 2017
COr-17-200
FIRST READING
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CITY CLERK
IN CITY COUNCIL
JUNE 26, 2017
COr 17-200
MOTION MADE AND SECONDED FOR PASSAGE
MOTION DOUBTED
VOTE: 6-2
COUNCILORS VOTIN YES: FAIRCLOTH, NEALLEY, SPRAGUE, TREMBLE,
WESTON, BALDACCI
COUNCILORS VOTING NO: GRAHAM, NICHOLS
PASSED
CITY CLERK