State ex rel. White v. Koch

{¶ 1} On December 20, 1984, the Cleveland City Council passed an ordinance codified at Section 173.07 of the Codified Ordinances of Cleveland, which provided an automatic six-percent annual pay increase for city council members. Section 173.06(b) of the Codified Ordinances provides that the annual salary of the Mayor of Cleveland shall be increased in 1995 and each year thereafter “by an amount which shall be computed by applying the percentage of the immediately preceding year’s salary that is equal to the percentage increases in salaries and wages established for that year in a majority of…