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Charter committee to revisit Placer supervisor-pay formula; asks staff for alternate methodologies
Summary
The Placer County Charter Review Committee debated whether to keep the current three-county averaging method for supervisor pay or return control to local voters. The panel voted to close the general compensation-item for further charter amendments but asked staff to return with alternative methodologies for consideration.
The Placer County Charter Review Committee spent a substantial portion of its Sept. 29 meeting debating how the county's Board of Supervisors should be paid and whether Placer voters should decide the method.
Under the county's charter, supervisor base salary is set by averaging the annual pay of supervisors in El Dorado, Nevada and Sacramento counties. Several committee members and members of the public raised concerns about that formula after news reporting and a Sacramento grand-jury review found transparency problems in Sacramento's recent pay-setting process.
Committee members were split on next steps. A number of members said they…
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