Ord 2007-59ORDINANCE NO. 59
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT
INCREASING DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
WHEREAS, the Directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District are entitled
to compensation for their service on behalf of the district as provided in Health &
Safety Code Section 6489; and
WHEREAS, the Board has been compensated at the rate of $170 per day
of service on behalf of the District, up to a maximum of six days per month, since
2001; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature has provided that directors are entitled to
increases in compensation of up to 5% per year thereafter; and
WHEREAS, the Board has never determined to increase its compensation
in those six years, and the sum of $170 per day's service is now worth
significantly less because of inflation; and
WHEREAS, the Board has conducted a public hearing on this matter in
accordance with the procedure set forth in Water Code Section 20203, and
notice of this matter has been duly published in accordance with Government
Code section 6066;
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ORDAINED as follows:
Section 1. That Section 3.01.30 of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District Operations
Code is hereby amended to read:
"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 rendered as a Director at the request of
the Board, the sum of two hundred twenty one dollars per day, not to exceed a
total of six days in any calendar month."
Section 2. 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 3. 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.
Section 4. In accordance with Water Code Section 20204, this ordinance shall
only become effective 60 days after the date of its passage.
PASSED and ADOPTED this day of 2007.
Secretary President
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. 59, was duly and regularly
passed and adopted by said Board of Directors at a regular meeting thereof,
held on the 9th day of July 2007, by the following vote:
AYES: Arthur Perry, Arlene Schafer, Robert Ooten, James Ferrymanl,l;
Gary Monahan
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, this G day of
2007.
Clerk of to Costa. Mesa. Sanitary District