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Flagstaff City Council Votes Against Special Election To Repeal Minimum Wage Act

The Flagstaff City Council voted against holding a May special election to repeal Proposition 414, the city’s voter-approved minimum wage act.

In November, voters moved to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021.

According to the Arizona Daily Sun, the city council was instead presented with another option: place the initiative on the 2018 ballot and have city staff find ways to amend the current law, which will be discussed at a future meeting.

Arizona voters also approved a minimum wage increase statewide, but it's lower than Flagstaff’s.

KJZZ senior field correspondent Kathy Ritchie has 20 years of experience reporting and writing stories for national and local media outlets — nearly a decade of it has been spent in public media.