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Llving Wages & Communitles: Smarter Economic Development, LowerThan Expected Costs
<br />23 Telephone Interview with Travis Myren, Program and Budget Analyst, Dane County, WI (7une 26, 2002)
<br />(on file with author).
<br />24 Interview with Office of Contract Administration, San Francisco, CA (June 25, 2002) (on file with author).
<br />25 Dane County was also able to provide the marginal increase for human services costs because of the living
<br />wage requirement. The 2001 total expenditures Fot contracts for human serves was $92 million, and
<br />increased by $2.6 million above the year beEore, due to a number of factors„ incIuding an increased case
<br />load and additional types of services. The $400,000 increase for this year rncans that the increase in
<br />human service costs associated with the living wage was 14.8-15% of the total increase for the human
<br />services budget. Telephone Interview with Travis Myren, Program and Budget Analyst, Dane County, WI
<br />(June 26, 2002) (an file with author).
<br />26 Myren, ru�ra note 25. The County reports that the Ievel of service did not change far these contracts. Id
<br />27 Telephone Interview with Mark Pietrosimone, Contrallcr, New Haven, C T(Nov. i, 2001) (on file with
<br />author).
<br />28 Telephone Interview with Karen Lovejoy Roe, Supervisor, Ypsilai��i Township, MI (Nov. 16, 2001) (on file
<br />with author).
<br />29 Pitzer, supra note 16,
<br />30 Memorandum Requesting Increase in Living Wage Rate, City Manager. Pasadena, GA. (Dec. 16, 2002)
<br />(on file with author).
<br />31 Draft Report on Effect of 5an Jose Living Wage, QEFice of Equality Assurance, 5an Jose, CA, p. 9(May
<br />16, 2002) (on file with author).
<br />32 Telephone Interview with Carl Cuitonjones, Auditor, Hayvrerd, CA (Dec. 19, 2001) (on flc with author).
<br />33 Telephone Interview with 7udith B[ackwe[l, Director of Purchasing, San Francisco, CA (Nov. 19, 2001)
<br />(on file with authar).
<br />34 Me�norandum, Pasadena City Manager, ruprrr note 30, p. 2.
<br />35 A recent study of the effect of the living wage law in the San Francisco International Airport found that
<br />turnover decreased by 60% among surveyed firms where wage costs increased by I0�/o or more, and that
<br />"high-impacr" firms also reported improvements in wark performance and employee morale. Michael
<br />ReicE�, Peter Hall & Ken Jacobs, Living Wa��' and Economic Performance: The San F'rancisca Airport Model,
<br />pp. 52-63 (Institute of Indus. Relations, [Jniv, of Calif-Berkeley Mar. 2003).
<br />3 6 Administrators reported no negative effect from their living wage law on economic development in
<br />Cambridge, Hartford, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Toledo, Warren, Ypsiianci Township, and Ypsilanti
<br />37 Duluth, San Antonio, Toledo, and Ypsilanti Township reported a successful year far economic develop-
<br />ment in 2000, measured by Iocal job graw�h and low unemployment levels. Duluth had a 20% unemploy-
<br />ment rate in the 1980's„ while 2001 unemployment levels were around 4%. Telephone Interview with
<br />Tam Cocruvo, Business Development Manager, Duluth, MN {Nov. 13, 2001) (on file with authoi). In
<br />Toledo, the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9% in September, 2001, to 5.5% that November.
<br />Telephone Interview with John 5her6urne, Commissioner, Department of Development, Toledo, O H
<br />(Nov: 19, 2001) (on file with author).
<br />3 8 Telephone Interview with the Minneapolis Community Deve[opmen� Agency, Minneapolis, M N(Nov.
<br />13, 2001) (on file with author).
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