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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Date:	January 13, 2015

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Costa

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Subject:

RESCISSION OF SALARY ORDINANCE NO. 2014-10 FOR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 01/13/2015

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

JOHN GIOIA (510) 231-8686

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: January 13, 2015
,

BY:	, Deputy

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.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

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.

CLERK'S ADDENDUM

Speakers: Perter Nguyen, 33% Coalition; Daniel Jameyson, SEIU Local 1021; Cheryl Grover, AFSCME 2700.