Item B11
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: April 16, 2003
Division:
District 1
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department: Mayor Dixie M. Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Proclama::lorl to declare April 15, 2003 as Equal Pay Day.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Tuesday, April 15th is the day on which the wages paid to American women catch up to wages paid to
American men in the previous year.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNT PER MONTH
Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMBlPurchasing _ Risk Management _
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
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Mayo ixie M. Spehar
DOCUMENTATION:
Included
To Follow
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM #~
Revised 1/03
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JMapor'g
ilroclamation
WHEREAS, forty years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act, women and people of color continue to suffer the consequences of inequitable pay differentials; and
WHEREAS, according to statistics released'in September, 2002 by the U.S. Census Bureau, year-
roUnd, full-time working women earned only 73% of the earnings of year-round, full.time working men,
indicating no change or progress in pay equitY since 1999; and
WHEREAS, according to a January, 2002 report released by the General Accounting Office (the
investigative ann of Congress), women managers in 7 of 10 industries surveyed, actually lost ground in
closing the wage gap between 1995 and 2000; and
WHEREAS, according to an analysis of data in over 300 classifications provided by the U.S.
Department of Labor Statistics, women earn less in every occupational classification for which enough data
is available, including occupations dominated by women (e.g., cashiers, retail sales, registered nurses and
teachers); and
WHEREAS, The Florida Women's Consortium documented in their 200 "Women Opening
Windows in Florida's Glass Ceiling" report, that women in the Senior Management Services level of State
government (where the average annual salary is $88,000) were paid $4000 annually less than their male
peers; and .
WHEREAS, over a working lifetime, this wage disparity costs the average American woman and
her farnily an estimated $250,000 in lost wages, impacting social security benefits and pensions; and
WHEREAS, fair pay equity policies can be implemented simply and without undue costs or
hardship in both the public and private sectors; and
WHEREAS, fair pay strengthens the security of families today and eases future retirement costs,
while enhancing the American economy; and
WHEREAS, Tuesday, April 15th is the day on which the wages paid to American women cat~h
up to the wages paid to men from the previous year.
NOW, THEREFORE, by the power'vested in me as Mayor of Monroe County, Florida, I do
hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 15th, 2003 as iI
EQUAL PAY DAY
WITNESS rroy hand and seal of the County of Monroe, Florida, this 16TH of April, 2003,
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yor Dixi M. pehar
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