This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “City of Sebastopol Living Wage Ordinance.” The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and welfare by ensuring that City employees, employees of City service contractors, and other businesses who receive funding from the City earn an hourly wage that is sufficient to enable one working parent with one dependent to live with dignity and economic self-sufficiency. The City contracts with many businesses and organizations to provide services to the public, and construct necessary public improvements, for the purpose of promoting economic development and job growth. The City Council seeks to demonstrate through enactment of the ordinance codified in this chapter that the use of City funds to provide living wage jobs will decrease poverty, increase consumer income and reduce the need for taxpayer funded social service programs. In doing so the City takes the lead to establish a community economic standard that permits workers to live out of poverty.