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Board appoints Greg Sessions as auditor‑controller and adopts compensation formulas for elected officials
Summary
The board unanimously appointed Greg Sessions to finish the auditor‑controller term, swore him in, and adopted an ordinance and a resolution setting formulas for annual compensation adjustments for supervisors and other elected officials, placing caps and market‑based guardrails.
The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors appointed Greg Sessions Nov. 25 to fill the remainder of the vacant auditor‑controller term and administered the oath of office.
Human Resources presented Sessions as the recommended candidate; Sessions told the board he has served as interim assistant auditor‑controller and emphasized continuity, timely payments and plans to support county fiscal work. The board voted 5–0 to appoint him and later administered the standard oath of office.
On the same agenda the board approved two personnel/compensation items. Item 20 introduced and waived first reading of an ordinance establishing an automatic annual compensation formula for the board of supervisors that weights 40% of the change to CPI, 40% to peer‑county salaries and 20% to superior‑court judge adjustments, capped at a 3.5% increase in any year. The board voted 5–0 to proceed with first reading/waiver.
Item 21 established a parallel policy for other elected officials — assessor, auditor‑controller, clerk/recorder, district attorney, sheriff and treasurer/tax collector — designed to keep salaries near the market median by using a 50/50 blend of external peer comparisons and internal county benchmarks with 10% guardrails (not more than 10% above or below market median). That resolution also passed 5–0.
County staff said the changes aim to keep elected‑officer pay competitive and to automate recurring adjustments so the board need not revisit the issue annually. Both policies include provisions to suspend adjustments in severe economic downturns.
