[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Seward
as Ch. 1, Art. 10, §§ 1001 through 1003, of the 1976
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Salaries of officers and employees of the municipality shall
be in such amount as the governing body shall fix by ordinance; provided
that after the governing body has adopted a wage and salary schedule
with employee classifications and wage ranges for each classification,
by ordinance, such ordinance shall be sufficient for all changes in
salary for municipal employees included thereunder without further
ordinances being passed, approved, and published. All salaries shall
be on file at the office of the Municipal Clerk and available for
public inspection at any reasonable time.
[Amended 7-1-1980 by Ord.
No. 12-80; 7-5-2000 by Ord. No. 30-00; 12-20-2005 by Ord. No. 58-05; 11-1-2011 by Ord. No. 31-11]
The annual salaries of the Mayor and Council are hereby fixed
in the sums and payable at the beginning of the full term of any member
of the governing body as follows:
The emoluments of any elected official shall not be increased
or diminished during the term of office for which he was elected,
except that elected officials who are elected to the Council or other
body having more than one member and where terms of one or more members
commence and end at different times, the compensation of all members
of that body may be increased or diminished at the beginning of the
full term of any member thereof. No person who shall have resigned
or vacated any elective office shall be again eligible to hold the
office during the term he was elected to if after resignation the
emoluments have been increased. (Neb. RS 16-326)
