In connection with the definition set forth in Section 2.87.020 of the "Sacramento area" as used in Section 63 of the County Charter, the Board of Supervisors find as follows:
a.
Notice of hearings by the Board of Supervisors to receive evidence, recommendations and comment concerning definition of the "Sacramento area" as used in Section 63 was given to all employee organizations who are exclusive representatives of bargaining units of County personnel.
b.
Public hearings were held by this board for the purpose of receiving such evidence, recommendations and comment on October 30 and November 6 and 8, 1979. Deliberations by the Board occurred on November 8, 13, and 20, 1979, and further comment was received.
c.
Effective administration of the provisions of Section 63 require that this board define the "Sacramento area" in order to give notice thereof to administrative representatives of the County whose responsibility it is to obtain and present survey data to employee organizations, and to members of the general public.
d.
There is a single "Sacramento area" for all personnel to whom the provisions of Section 63 apply. It would not be either practical or consistent with the intent, wording, or history of Section 63 to define a different "Sacramento area" for each of the 26 bargaining units of County personnel. Nor does the evidence, comment or recommendations which this board received warrant the conclusion that there is justification for a definition of the "Sacramento area" which varies from one bargaining unit to another.
e.
Bargaining with each exclusive representative of the 26 bargaining units of County personnel for the purpose of reaching agreement upon a definition of the "Sacramento area" would not be practical. Nor would establishing a definition of the "Sacramento area" by negotiated agreement be consistent with the legislative responsibilities of the Board of Supervisors. The acquisition, analysis and assimilation of data for purposes of compensation comparisons would be extremely burdensome should the "Sacramento area" be defined differently from bargaining unit to bargaining unit, and should such definition be subject to annual negotiation and agreement.
f.
The "Sacramento area" as used in Section 63 consists of a limited geographical territory within the vicinity of Sacramento, and not some other geographical area which is similar economically, socially, culturally, in its cosmopolitan characteristics or otherwise, to Sacramento. Nor does the evidence, recommendations or comment presented reveal what, if any, areas within California or elsewhere are economically, socially, culturally or otherwise similar to Sacramento.
g.
Whether there are employees of employers within the "Sacramento area" as defined whose jobs are sufficiently comparable to those of County personnel to permit compensation comparisons is an issue which is irrelevant to the question of how the "Sacramento area" ought to be defined, and which must be ascertained pursuant to particular prevailing rate determinations.
h.
Section 63 is intended to ensure that Sacramento County effectively competed within the local job market with respect to compensation which it pays its personnel. Without regard to the order or relative importance, the following factors are relevant in defining the local job market which consists of the "Sacramento area": the areas where County personnel reside; the areas where applicants for County jobs reside; the areas which are included within and related to the Sacramento market as revealed by newspaper circulation and help wanted ads; the incidence of employment within Sacramento County by those living outside thereof; factors which employers within the Sacramento vicinity consider relevant in relating geographical area to recruiting or setting of compensation; and the service areas of public and public service agencies within the Sacramento vicinity.
(SCC 403 § 1, 1979)
