§ 2. Salaries.

Each member of the Council shall receive a salary of twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000.00) per year, commencing December 1, 2014, payable as employees of the city are paid. The City Council shall have no power to change its salary by its own vote. Councilors may be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

NOTE: This section was amended to read as above by an amendment voted November 12, 2013. There were 39,642 votes in favor of the amendment and 31,744 votes against the amendment. The title to this amendment read:

Shall the City Charter of the City of Tulsa be amended to set the salary for members of the City Council at twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000.00) per year, commencing December 1, 2014; and repealing the Council's power to change its salary by its own vote?

Prior to this amendment, this section read as follows:

Section 2. Salaries.

During the first term of office under this amended Charter, each member of the Council shall receive a salary of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00) per year payable as employees of the city are paid; thereafter, the salary to be received by each member of the Council and the Chairman may be changed by a majority vote of the entire membership of the Council; provided, no change in salary shall become effective prior to the commencement of the term of office next succeeding the term in which the change is made and then only in the event such change was approved prior to the general election for the next succeeding term. Councilors may be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.