The ordinance codified in this chapter is enacted pursuant to
Section 36516 of the
Government Code, as amended, authorizing the
council to provide by ordinance that each member of the council shall
receive a prescribed salary, the amount of which is based upon the
population of the city as determined by estimates made by the State
Department of Finance, and prescribing the methods by which council
salaries may be increased or decreased in the future.
(Ord. 1202 § 1, 1997)
Each member of the city council of the city shall receive as
salary the following:
(a)
The sum of one thousand dollars per month, which shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as salaries are paid to other officers and employees of the city, until the increase in subsection
(b) goes into effect.
(b)
The city council salary shall be increased to one thousand four
hundred dollars per month for all members of the city council, as
prescribed in Section 36516 of the
Government Code for cities over
fifty thousand up to and including seventy five thousand in population,
at such time as one or more members become eligible for a salary increase
by virtue of beginning a new term of office after the November 2024
general election, pursuant to
Government Code Section 36516.5.
(Ord. 1202 § 1, 1997; Ord. 1536 § 3, 2017; Ord. 1658, 6/12/2024)
The salaries provided in this chapter may be increased or decreased
as follows:
(a) Following any new and later estimate of population made by the department of finance, placing the city in a population group other than that set forth in Section
2.12.020, the salary payable to each member of the council may be increased or decreased by ordinance of the city council to equal the sum prescribed for that population group in Section 36516 of the
Government Code, as amended.
(b) An
amount equal to five percent for each calendar year from the operative
date of the last adjustment of the salaries in effect, in accordance
with
Government Code Section 36516 and as approved by city council
ordinance.
(c) An
amount equal to inflation since January 1, 2024, based on the California
Consumer Price Index, not to exceed ten percent per calendar year,
in accordance with
Government Code Section 36516 and as approved by
city council ordinance.
(d) In
accordance with
Government Code Section 36516, by a majority of the
electors voting at any municipal election.
(e) The
salaries as so increased or decreased shall become payable only on
and after the date upon which one or more members of the council becomes
eligible therefor by virtue of beginning a new term of office following
a general municipal election held in the city.
(Ord. 1202 § 1, 1997; Ord. 1536 § 3, 2017; Ord. 1658, 6/12/2024)
The salaries prescribed in this chapter are and shall be exclusive
of any amounts payable to each member of the council as reimbursement
for actual and necessary expenses incurred by him or her in the performance
of official duties for the city.
(Ord. 1202 § 1, 1997)
The ordinance codified in this chapter shall become operative
only on and after the date upon which one or more members of the council
of the city becomes eligible for the salary prescribed in this section
by virtue of beginning a new term of office following the general
municipal election next succeeding its effective date, and prior to
said operative date, councilmembers’ salaries shall be one thousand
four hundred dollars per month.
(Ord. 1202 § 1, 1997; Ord. 1658, 6/12/2024)