During Tuesday mornings Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board unanimously agreed to repeal an ordinance that would have granted the supervisors a salary adjustment.
In November, supervisors voted 4 to 1 to adjust their own annual pay to be more commensurate with other Bay Area counties, from $97,000 to $129,000 per year—future pay raises would be tied to state employee salaries.
The Board of Supervisors agreed to moving forward with a repeal last week due to public expression through the petition process and to avoid the expenditure of time and resources to verify the petition signatures or hold an election on the matter which would have cost the county $2.5 million.
Tuesday, they finalized the repeal with a 5-0 vote.
Under the direction of board chair John Gioia, the Board will bring back the issue of a salary adjustment during a meeting in February.
Here is a look at the Staff Report:
RECOMMENDATION(S):
INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 2015-04 repealing Ordinance No. 2014-10, which would have adjusted the salary of the Board of Supervisors; WAIVE reading; and FIX January 20, 2015 for adoption.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The estimated cost associated with the 2014 salary ordinance is $235,000, $66,876 of which is pension cost.
BACKGROUND:
On November 4, 2014, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 2014-10, which amended the County Ordinance Code to adjust salary of members of the Board of Supervisors to an annual amount equivalent to seventy percent of Superior Court judges’ salaries and provided that, prospectively, Supervisors’ salaries would be adjusted as necessary to maintain a base salary equivalent to seventy percent of judges’ salaries. Judge’s salaries are linked to the salary increases of State employees.
The Supervisors’ salaries had not been raised since 2007 and were the lowest in the State for urban counties, and the second lowest for counties in the Bay Area.
On January 2, 2015, a coalition of labor organizations filed a referendum petition, calling on the Supervisors to rescind the salary increase and, effectively, suspending the ordinance that was to have taken effect on January 3, 2015. The County Registrar of Voters advised that the petition must contain 25,407 valid signatures in order to be deemed sufficient. The petition filed on January 2 is estimated to contain approximately 39,000 signatures but the number of valid signatures is yet to be determined by the Elections office. The signature verification is currently in process.
In recognition of the public expression through the petition process and to avoid the expenditure of time and resources to verify the petition signatures or hold an election on the matter, the Board will consider rescinding the salary adjustment ordinance.
The Board will take up at a future meeting the issue of how to proceed on a salary adjustment.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Should the Board of Supervisors elect to uphold the salary adjustment ordinance and the petition is found to be sufficient, then the Board must submit the ordinance to the voters either at a future regular or special county election.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
Not applicable.
4 comments
The two greedy women on the board need to reflect a little. Contra Costa is not a real urban county. Even if it was considered one it would be in infancy. To compare wages of true urban counties like LA is stretching it. Before you get your greed on again try looking at counties that are rural and one million people or less. You are expecting to get Rolls Royce pay for a Hyundai job. Don’t cherry pick comparisons for your selfish benefit. You knew what the pay was and the job. If you don’t like it get out.
What about the two men?
disco dude,
“Contra Costa is not even a real urban County”.
Wait, ..what??? While a unqualified and anonymous poster might not know better, it actually it is officially classified as an urban county. Counties are qualified and quantified statewide as urban, suburban or rural.
Contra Costa Supervisors never compared their wages to L.A. Suggesting that is “stretching it” and demonstrates your own hypocrisies.
Why would anyone trying to do a comparison of a county like ours which is Urban and EXCEEDS a population of 1 million, with one that is Rural and has LESS than one million? That makes no sense.
The majority of the board of supervisors has been in office for over a decade. You really think starting pay remains the constant in any job? It doesn’t.
None of your post makes sense unless you pride yourself in boasting about personal jealousy and ignorance.
Disco Dude, I think you are drinking the Delta Water with such an idiotic statement, you make me look smart. More than 1 million people is not an urban city? Who gets to define real or true? Certainly I hope its not you given your la la land comment on this page.
Speaking of vehicles, maybe you should go speak to the union heads who recently agreed to purchase a certain $100k vehicle for a boss to represent them..
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