HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03032015 - C.90RECOMMENDATION(S):
ACCEPT the Clerk-Recorder’s certificate of signature verification results for referendum petition on Ordinance No.
2014-10, which would have adjusted the salaries of the Board of Supervisors members, as recommended by the
County Administrator.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The estimated cost associated with the 2014 salary ordinance was $235,000, $66,876 of which was 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 would be determined by the Elections office.
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 02/03/2015 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: JULIE DiMAGGIO ENEA
925.335.1077
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: February 3, 2015
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Stacey M. Boyd, Deputy
cc:
C. 90
To:Board of Supervisors
From:David Twa, County Administrator
Date:February 3, 2015
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:CLERK'S CERTIFICATE TO INITIATIVE PETITION OF REFERENDUM OF ORDINANCE NO. 2014-10
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
The County Clerk has examined the petition and verified the signatures by examining the records of registration in
this county, and has determined that the required number of qualified electors have signed the petition. The
County Clerk certifies that the attached report regarding the signatures is true and correct.
During the interval in which signatures were being verified, the Board of Supervisors, on January 20, 2015, took
action to repeal the salary ordinance (No. 2014-10) in recognition of the public expression through the petition
process and to minimize the expenditure of time and resources to verify the petition signatures or hold an election
on the matter.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Not applicable.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
Not applicable.
ATTACHMENTS
Clerk-Recorder Certification of Referendum to Overturn County Ordinance No. 2014-10