HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1972 (80) RESOLUTION NO.
WHEREAS, in August 1971, Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United
States, invoked a national wage price freeze., and
WHEREAS, the Wage;Price Board has set guide lines of 5.5% for increases
of wages, and
WHEREAS, industry, business, and governmental units.were expected to
follow these guide lines, and
WHEREAS, the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee at Madison voted 8 to
2 to recommend a salary boost to lawmakers from the,present $8,900,a year to
$13,419 a year, starting next year, and
WHEREAS, the pay would go UP in two steps from'$25,000' A year to $38,903
a year for the chief executive elected in 1974 and to $45,032 a year for the
governor starting in 1979'y, and
WHEREAS, it should be the duty of governmental units to set the example
in holding wages within the price guide lines,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the St. Croix County Board of Super-
visors duly assembled this 28th-day of February, 1972, that the St. Croix County
Board of Supervisors go on record,opposing these exorbitant and large increases
that the Joint Finance Committee are recommending to the.Legislature, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this opposing resolution be sent to
the Honorable President Richard M. "Nixon' the Honorable Governor Patrick J. Lucey,
Senators Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, Congressman Alvin_Q'Konsk4 our State
Senator :Robert'P.; Knowles,,, our Representative .-Leo 7&)--Moha to the Wisconsin
County Boards Association, and to all other counties in the State of Wisconsin.
ST. CROIX COUNTY.BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. Dated: February 1972
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I, F. Verna Stohlberg, County Clerk in and for the said County of St. Croix,
State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and
correct copy of the resolution unanimously passed by.the County,Board of
Supervisors of St. Croix.County, Wisconsin, at their meeting of February
28, 1972, A.D.
F. Verna Stohlberg
St. Croix County Clerk
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