Elevate Flagstaff Files A Petition To Attempt To Modify The City’s New Minimum Wage Law

The group Elevate Flagstaff has filed an initiative petition with the City of Flagstaff that would modify Proposition 414 that passed in November. Prop 414 raises the minimum wage in Flagstaff to 15-dollars an hour by 2021 and keeps the minimum wage two dollars above the state’s minimum wage. Under the current standard, Flagstaff’s minimum wage would rise to ten-dollars an hour in January and 12-dollars an hour in July. The new initiative, if voted on and passed, would amend Prop 414 to keep Flagstaff 50-cents an hour above the current minimum wage in Arizona, instead of two dollars. Members of Flagstaff Needs A Raise, the group who authored and campaigned for Prop 414, is calling the efforts of Elevate Flagstaff a “gut job” and “complete disregard for Flagstaff’s working families.” If the request is approved, Elevate Flagstaff would need to gather around four-thousand signatures to put it on the ballot for a possible summer special election.

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