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Sanitary district board pay reset: council rescinds old ordinance and declines additional compensation
Summary
After staff explained that a 2001 ordinance paid EPASD board members roughly $307 per meeting but state law limits such pay to $150 per month, the council voted to repeal the old ordinance and not accept extra compensation for board members.
City staff told the board that an existing ordinance (No. 48) dating to 2001 set EPASD board meeting pay at roughly $307 per meeting and allowed annual adjustments, but state law limits compensation for council members sitting on subsidiary district boards to a maximum of $150 per month. Assistant general manager Sherry Klima explained the options: repeal the old ordinance and keep no additional compensation, adopt a resolution to authorize up to $100 per day (capped at $150 per month), or hold a noticed public hearing to consider compensation up to the maximum allowed.
Council members debated whether additional pay was necessary. Multiple council members said they preferred not to accept extra compensation for district work embedded in council duties; one council member estimated any extra compensation would likely be modest but said they would "rather not take any compensation." The council adopted a motion to rescind the existing ordinance and not act to add compensation, and staff confirmed the repeal would remove prior provisions that authorized per-meeting payments for the district board under the previous ordinance.
The vote rescinded Ordinance No. 48 and affirmed the council's direction not to accept additional EPASD board pay at this time. Staff said if there is an issue of owed pay from past meetings, any amount would be constrained by the $150-per-month maximum set by the health and safety code and government code interaction described in the presentation.
