LINKS TO BACKGROUND INFORMATION
 

• Santa Monica city employee living wage became effective January 1, 2005; Council held first reading on an ordinance implementing the city contractor living wage on February 22, 2005, with adoption scheduled for March 8, 2005.  If the ordinance is adopted on schedule, city contracts entered into after April 8, 2005 must include a living wage for contractors’ employees.  (See staff reports from the February 8 and February 22, 2005 City Council meetings for additional information, including exceptions.)

• Council Adopts Living Wage Ordinance
   

• Council Authorizes Contractor/City Employee Living Wage Model (June 15, 2004)
   

• Referendum to adopt Living Wage Ordinance is defeated
  in the election of November 5, 2002. 
   

• Living Wage Fact Sheet (updated November 6, 2002)
   

• Living Wage Ordinance Map (August 6, 2001)
   

• Staff Report to City Council and Ordinance Adoption (July 24, 2001)
   

• Staff Report to City Council and Ordinance (May 22, 2001)
   

• Council's Direction to City Staff  (March 27, 2001)
   

• Staff Report to City Council  (March 27, 2001)
   

• Staff Report to City Council Concerning Request for
  Proposal for Living Wage Study (January 25, 2000)
   

• Living Wage Campaign Statements
   
• Summary of the SMART Living Wage Task Force Proposed Ordinance
   

• Living Wage Study   (This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file; Acrobat Reader must be loaded on your computer in order to view the document. Click on the Adobe icon to download the free Acrobat Reader.)



 
• Living Wage Study Peer Reviews

To assist the Council and community in assessing the PERI study, Dr. Pollin proposed that the City engage two noted economists to review his work. Dr. David Neumark of Michigan State University (currently at the Public Policy Institute of California) and Dr. Richard Freeman of Harvard University (currently at the London School of Economics) were engaged to do so. Their reviews of the study are posted here:

Comments of Dr. David Neumark
Comments of Dr. Richard B. Freeman