TITLE 20. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 20-300. COMPENSATION
§20-308. Cost of Living Adjustments. [19]
(1) Definitions.
(a) Date of Adjustment. June 30
of each year.
(b) Base Fiscal Year. The fiscal year ending two years
prior to the Date of Adjustment.
(c) Prior Fiscal Year. The fiscal year
ending one year prior to the Date of Adjustment.
(d) Tax Revenues. In
schedule I-A-5 of the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,
entitled "Combined Schedule of Revenues, Expenditures, Encumbrances and Changes
in Fund Balances -- General and Special Revenues Funds and Capital Improvement
Funds -- Budget (Legal Basis) and Actual," the amount set forth in the line
labelled "Tax Revenues" under the column entitled "General Fund -- Actual," or,
should such Schedule or line no longer be included in the City's
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, then the equivalent amount as it may
appear in some other Schedule or line of the City's Comprehensive
Financial Report.
(e) Tax Revenue Multiplier. The ratio of Tax Revenues
for the Prior Fiscal Year to Tax Revenues for the Base Fiscal
Year.
(f) CPI. The Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U)
All Items Index, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as measured by the United States
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(g) CPI Multiplier. The
ratio of the CPI on the last day of the Prior Fiscal Year to the CPI on the
first day of the Prior Fiscal Year.
(2) The minimum and maximum salaries
set forth in § 20-303 shall be adjusted on the Date of Adjustment by
multiplying each then existing minimum and maximum salary (as those minimums and
maximums may have been adjusted pursuant to this section from time to time) by
the lesser of the Tax Revenue Multiplier and the CPI Multiplier.
(3) The
salaries of the elected officials whose salary is set forth in § 20-305
(except for the salary of the District Attorney) shall be adjusted on the Date
of Adjustment by multiplying the then existing salary (as it may have been
adjusted pursuant to this section from time to time) by the lesser of the Tax
Revenue Multiplier and the CPI Multiplier.