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Results Of the Living Wage Town Hall
Meetings
On February 9th and February 28th,
the Memphis Living Wage Coalition
held two town hall meetings on the proposed living wage ordinance.
At the meetings, members of the community shared with their Council
members why Memphis needs a strong, comprehensive
living wage ordinance.
The 250 people that attended the town halls made them a success.
Press the Council to act for a living wage by participating in our
Forty Hour Fast, to be held March 30th.
At the town halls, Council members were then asked to answer
the question "Will you vote for
a living wage ordinance that requires workers on city contracts, workers at
companies that receive PILOT property tax freezes, and full-time and temporary*
City of Memphis workers to be paid at least $10 per hour with health insurance
benefits or $12 per hour without insurance?" Council members were asked to
give
a yes or no answer about each section of the ordinance.
(*Temporary City workers does not include summer job programs for youth, which
would be exempted from the living wage ordinance.)
The answers of City Council Members
who attended
the meetings are listed below:
Councilman Dedrick Brittenum:
Attended meeting but would not state a
position on the living wage ordinance.
Councilman Joe Brown: Stated would vote yes on a living wage covering full-time
and
temporary city workers, city contractors, and tax freeze
recipients.
Councilwoman Carol Chumney: Stated would vote yes
on living wage covering full-time
City workers and tax freeze
recipients; no on city contractors and temporary City workers
in the form that has been proposed by the Living Wage Coalition.
Councilman Edmund Ford: Did not attend
Councilwoman Barbara
Swearengen Holt: Did not attend
Councilman E.C. Jones: Stated would vote yes on a living wage covering full-time
and
temporary city workers, city contractors, and tax freeze
recipients.
Councilman Myron Lowery: Stated would vote yes on a living wage covering full-time
and
temporary city workers, city contractors, and tax freeze
recipients.
Councilman Scott McCormick: Did not attend
Councilman Tom Marshall: Did not attend
Chairwoman TaJuan Stout
Mitchell: Stated would vote yes on a living wage covering full-time
and
temporary city workers, city contractors, and tax freeze
recipients.
Councilman Rickey Peete: Stated would vote yes on
living wage covering full-time
City workers and tax freeze
recipients; no on city contractors and temporary City workers
in the form that has been proposed by the Living Wage Coalition.
Councilman Jack Sammons: Did not attend
Councilman Brent Taylor: Did not attend
Councilman E.C. Jones
Chairman TaJuan Stout Mitchell
Rev.
Andre Johnson addresses the Council Members.
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