Other LanguagesSo much of § 11, chapter 269, Laws of 1975, 1st Ex. Sess., as provides that not more than $117,016,320 in general fund moneys shall be expended for the continuation of certain specified salary increases for state employees does not have the effect of prohibiting community college faculty and staff who are not covered by chapter 28B.16 RCW from being granted additional pay raises during the 1975-77 biennium in accordance with RCW 28B.50.140(3).
County commissioners in a county of the second class may not under existing statutes allocate a portion of their salaries from the county road fund or from tax mills earmarked for county roads.
Section 86, chapter 137, Laws of 1973, 1st Ex. Sess., does not require the higher education personnel board to adopt, and the various affected educational institutions to accept, a revised salary schedule for those classified employees who are under its jurisdiction that will fully implement 50% of the salary increase for those employees proposed in the board's July, 1972, salary survey, where the appropriations contained therein are insufficient to enable those institutions to fund such salary increases as would be payable under that schedule; the board is, however, required to adopt a salary schedule which will bring the employees covered as close to the board's determination of prevailing wages as is possible within the appropriations.
A mayor's salary may not be increased after his election. The salary may be increased after the close of time for filing or the primary election.
An initiative ordinance providing for the classification of police and firemen under a pay adopted by the council does not prevent the council from fixing their salaries under a charter provision so authorizing, and only prevents the council from changing such classification except by popular vote as provided by another charter provision.
The constitutional inhibition against increase or diminution of salary applies to one filling an unexpired term of office.
A proposed raise in salary to be effective before a successor to the office has been elected and qualified would be invalid.