Ord 2001-35ORDINANCE NO. 35
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COSTA MESA
SANITARY DISTRICT INCREASING DIRECTORS COMPENSATION
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors have not had an increase in their compensation
for District service since 1987 when the day compensation was increased to $100 per day;
and
WHEREAS, in those years since the compensation was set the Assembly
Committee on Local Government has found that $100 in 1987 is now the equivalent of
$63.72 in today's dollars; and
WHEREAS, SB 1559 (Chapter 86 of the 2000 Stats.) has now amended Health and
Safety Code Section 6489 to allow sanitary and sanitation district directors to be provided
with the same compensation as afforded water district members; and
WHEREAS, the new legislation now establishes that the directors may be paid a
sum equal to the amount of the last adjustment plus a 5% adjustment for each year
thereafter; and
WHEREAS, the new law requires that increases be imposed by ordinance after a
public hearing is noticed in accordance With Government Code Section 6066; and
WHEREAS, the District Clerk has advised the Board that the appropriate notice has
been given in accordance with Government Code Section 6066; and
WHEREAS, the Directors generally work many hours in each single day in which
they render service for the district; and
WHEREAS, the Board does hereby determine to increase director compensation in
accordance with the statutory scheme and to provide that the increases will not go into
effect for sixty (60) days hereafter in accordance with the statutory mandate;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District
does hereby ORDAIN as follows:
read:
Section 1. That Section 3.01.030 of the District Operations Code is amended to
"Section 3.01.030 Compensation. Pursuant to the provisions of Health and Safety
Code Section 6489, compensation is set for each day's attendance at a Board
meeting, or for each day's service is rendered as a director at the request of the
Board, the sum of-, m. oo per day, not to exceed a total of six days in any calendar
month. The Board member shall also be entitled to his reasonable expenses
incident thereto."
Section 2. In accordance with Government Code Section 6489, as amended by
Chapter 86 of the 2000 Stats., this Ordinance shall not be effective until sixty (60) days
after enactment.
Section 3. Should any part, clause or section of this Ordinance be declared by any
Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance
shall nevertheless be and remain in full force and effect and the Board of Directors of the
Costa Mesa Sanitary District of Orange County, California, hereby declares that each and
every section, clause, provision or part of this Ordinance would have been adopted and
made a part of this Ordinance without the adoption of any portion thereof and that the
invalidity of any part or provision hereof shall not in any way affect the validity or
enforcement of the remaining provisions of this Ordinance that may stand on their own.
Section 4. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 6490 and 6491.3, the
Clerk shall cause this ordinance or a summary thereof to be published in a newspaper of
general circulation printed and published in the District according to law and it shall take
effect upon the expiration of sixty (60) days after adoption provided that date is at least one
week after publication.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 1 �.�., day of 2001.
_; ;:S�:cretary
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, JOAN REVAK, Clerk of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Ordinance No. 35, was duly and regularly passed and adopted by
said Board of Directors at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 11th day
of January 2001 by the following vote:
AYES: Arlene Schafer, Greg Woodside, Arthur Perry,
Jim Ferryman, Dan Worthington
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, this 11 ;bL day of 2001.
Clerk of t 0i:;osta Mesa. Sai-i'itary District