UPDATE - As of September 16, 2016

Trenton's City Council has postponed action on this issue until its October 20 meeting. Last night, during the session in which the Ordinance had been scheduled to be discussed, I, on behalf of our Committee and all of you who have signed this online Petition, addressed the Council members and stated that we will continue to oppose any revised plan by the City that proposes to grant any discretionary increases to management personnel (and these non-contractual increases are, in fact, purely discretionary) that are retroactive in any way, and which would be implemented before the City adopts its Annual Operating Budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1, nearly 3 full months ago. Proposed discretionary raises must be considered in the context of all of the other budget items the City proposes, and all of those set against the anticipated revenue resources we expect to earn or otherwise receive this year. If Council passes next month an Ordinance and Resolution that allows retroactive payments of their bumps, and if they pass these before an Annual Budget is adopted - even if the increases are nominal Cost of Living Adjustment - we will circulate a petition to overturn that Ordinance.