04.11.24 CC Amendment Section 9-35 Wage Theft Advisory Committee Structure — File 24-0543

CITY OF SOMERVILLE ORDINANCE NO. 2024- IN CITY COUNCIL: ________, 2024 Be it ordained by the City Council, in session assembled, that Section 9-35 of the code of ordinances of the City of Somerville is amended as follows by deleting the struckthrough text and adding the underlined text. Sec. 9-35. – Wage theft advisory committee. (a) Structure. (1) There shall be established a wage theft advisory committee, comprised of 11 total designees, one designee submitted by the city council, one designee submitted by the mayor, and one designee from each of the following identified organizations, chosen by the city council, from a list provided respectively by each of the following identified organizations: the Greater Boston Labor Council, The Welcome Project, the Brazilian Workers Center, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, the New England Regional Council of Carpenters The North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, the Metro Building Trades Council, Our Revolution Somerville Somerville Stands Together, and the Somerville Community Corporation. (2) Designees of the wage theft advisory committee shall be appointed for a term of three years, notwithstanding initial appointments, and must be appointed no later than the second meeting of the new year. In order to stagger the terms of the designees, the initial appointments of the designee from the city council, the mayor, and Greater Boston Labor Council shall be for one year; the initial appointments for the designee from the Brazilian Workers Center, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, the Somerville Chamber of Commerce and the New England Regional Council of Carpenters The North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters shall be for two years. The remaining initial appointments (the designees from the Metro Building Trades Council, Our Revolution Somerville Somerville Stands Together, the Somerville Community Corporation, and the Welcome Project) shall be for three years. Approved: President Approved: Mayor