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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, suspending the collection of the taxes authorized by Ordinances Number 54-07-OR and 55-07-OR, effective in thirty days, and pending the execution of a new collective bargaining agreement between the Port Authority and its represented employees that satisfies the conditions of Executive Order 2007-1, governing distribution of revenue derived from Act 44 of 2007.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to enabling legislation passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly as part of Act 44 of 2007, Allegheny County Council passed two new taxes into law on December 4, 2007; and
WHEREAS, the first of these new taxes, imposed as a ten percent (10%) tax upon the sale at retail of liquor and malt and brewed beverages within the County, was signed by the Chief Executive on December 10, 2007 as Ordinance 54-07-OR, and is now codified at Article 808.A. of the Administrative Code of Allegheny County (a/k/a the “Drink Tax”); and
WHEREAS, under the terms of 53 P.S. 8602(A), enacted by Act 44, the Drink Tax was to be levied solely "to obtain financial support for transit systems"; and
WHEREAS, in March 2007, in response to mounting fiscal pressure, the Port Authority Chief Executive Officer implemented a broad series of changes to reduce management and non-represented employee costs, including, without limitation: eliminating 56 non-represented budgeted positions, including 20 management positions; freezing fiscal year 2008 salaries for all non-represented employees; increasing non-represented employees' health care contributions, freezing all senior management salaries; making non-represented pension provisions consistent with those available to union employees; restricting the buyback of previous employment time to only military years of service with a 10-year vesting period; and terminating lifetime health care for non-represented employees; and
WHEREAS, the current contract for represented em...
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