SECTION 1. The annual compensation (including salary and benefits) of members of the Board of Supervisors, shall be set by, but shall never exceed, the average of the compensation payable to members of the Board of Supervisors in the following comparison California Counties: Riverside, Orange, and San Diego. For purposes of this section, “compensation” shall be defined as all salary paid, and the amount of all benefits payable to the Board member or payable on behalf of the Board member, but compensation shall not include amounts a county is otherwise legally obligated to pay to third parties, including but not limited to employer contributions to a defined benefit retirement system, Medicare, workers compensation or Social Security, and reimbursement for reasonable and necessary business expenses. Compensation shall be set as follows: On December 1, 2013, compensation to be paid to members of the Board of Supervisors shall initially be established based on a survey of the compensation payable to members of the Board of Supervisors in the comparison counties. If the compensation paid to members of the Board of Supervisors is greater than the average compensation payable to Board members in comparison counties, salary shall be reduced such that compensation is within the comparison amount. If the compensation paid to members of the Board of Supervisors is less than the average compensation payable to Board members in the comparison counties, salary shall be increased such that compensation does not exceed average compensation payable in the comparison counties. Thereafter, compensation shall be recomputed every four years on December 1 based on a new survey of the compensation then payable to members of the Board of Supervisors in the comparison counties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member of the Board of Supervisors shall have the member's compensation reduced during their current term of office. | COUNTY ELECTED OFFICIALS SALARIES | Commencing December 1, 2013, the maximum salary and benefits that every County elected official is eligible to receive shall be posted on the County website. | The annual salaries of elected County Officials, excepting that of Superintendent of County Schools and other than members of the Board of Supervisors, shall be set by, but shall never exceed, the average of the salaries paid to corresponding officials in the following California Counties: Riverside, Kern, San Diego, Orange and Ventura. The salaries shall be computed each year on December 1 as follows: On December 1, 1985, 70% of the average, on December 1, 1986, 80% of the average, on December 1, 1987, 90% of the average, and on December 1, 1988, and thereafter, 100% of the average; provided, however, that on December 1, 1989, and each December 1 thereafter, regardless of the amount of increase in the average salaries from the other counties, no increase shall exceed 4% of the annual salary of the elected official unless submitted to and approved by the voters of the county at a county-wide election. Where no comparable offices exist in a majority of named counties, the salary of the office shall be adjusted by the average of the percentage adjustments of the other county officials governed by this section. No provision of this amendment shall provide retroactive benefits. No salary adjustment shall be made on December 1, 1985, for any elected official whose salary has been adjusted since November 7, 1978, but such salaries shall be adjusted thereafter in accordance with this section.
| SALARY OF COUNTY OFFICER IS FULL COMPENSATION | SECTION 2. In all cases in which an officer is to receive a fixed salary, such salary shall be in full compensation for all service by such officer; and in all cases in which such officer is, by general law, entitled to charge or receive any fees or commissions, it shall be the duty of such officer to charge, collect and receive such fees and commissions, and to pay the same monthly to the County Treasurer; provided, that the necessary actual traveling expenses properly incurred by any officer or by any assistant, deputy, clerk or attaché of such officer, in the performance of his official duties, shall be a legal charge against the County.
| TRAVELLING EXPENSES LEGAL CHARGE AGAINST COUNTY | SECTION 3. All annual salaries of officers, assistant, deputies, clerks and attaches, whether fixed by general law or by this Charter or by the Board of Supervisors, shall be payable in equal biweekly or other period installments as determined by the Board of Supervisors. Compensation earned during any pay period shall not be payable prior to the payday established for that period.
| PAY PERIODS ESTABLISHED BY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | COMPENSATION NOT PAYABLE PRIOR TO PAY DAY | SECTION 4. The Board of Supervisors may, by ordinance, provide for the appointment of a Civil Service Commission and prescribe its duties and fix the compensation and terms of office of its members; and the Board may prescribe such Civil Service rules and regulations as they shall deem proper to govern themselves in the appointment of any or all officers, assistants, deputies, clerks and attaches, whose appointment it is authorized to make, by general law or by this Charter.
| APPOINTMENT AND REGULATION OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION | CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS | SECTION 5. The County may not exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property from any private Owner thereof, without such Owner's consent, when the purpose of the acquisition is to convey the property so acquired to any private party. As used in this section, "Owner" means the owner(s) of the fee title interest in the property to be acquired.
| LIMIT EMINENT DOMAIN AND PROTECT PROPERTY RIGHTS | UNNUMBERED INITIATIVE AMENDMENT. Repealed by Amendment Number 36 filed and operative November 18, 1985. |
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