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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - March 19, 2008 K-05AGENDA ITEM K`"'5 CITY OF LODI COUNCIL COMMUNICATION TM AGENDA TITLE: Consideration of Council Member Salaries as Requested by Council Member Johnson MEETING DATE: March 19,2008 PREPARED BY: Randi Johl, City Clerk RECOMMENDED ACTION: As desired by City Council. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: At the Council meeting of February 20,2008, Council Member Johnson requested that the topic of Council Member salaries be placed on a future agenda. The following information is provided in response. Council Member salaries for general law cities are provided for in the Government Code. Specifically, the City Council has the ability to give itself an increase based on Government Code Section 36516. The pertinent portion of that Section provides as follows: "36516. (a) A city council may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the city council shall receive a salary, the amount of which shall be determined by the following schedule: (3) In cities over 50,000 up to and including 75,000 in population, up to and including five hundred dollars ($500) per month. For the purposes of this section the population shall be determined by the last preceding federal census, ora subsequent census, or estimate validated by the Department of Finance. (c) Compensation of council members may be increased beyond the amount provided in this section by an ordinance or by an amendment to an ordinance but the amount of the increase may not exceed an amount equal to 5 percent for each calendar vear from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment is enacted. No salary ordinance shall be enacted or amended which provides for automatic future increases in salary." In summary, as a general law city, the Lodi City Council may receive $500 per month based on its population. This amount maybe raised up to 5% per year since the last salary ordinance was adopted in 1990, This amounts to an additional $450 ($500 base salary x 5% = $25 x 18 years = $450). If compounded, the amount would be slightly higher at $703. In addition, an ordinance cannot provide for automatic increases. While an increase may be implemented at any time, the increase would not become effective until the next municipal election in November2008. FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable. FUNDING AVAILABLE: Not applicable. Rand! Johl, City Clerk APPROVED: ing, City Manager City Council Salary Survey Comparison (2007) Cities of Population 50,000 -75,000, Entire Council Elected At Large w/ Mayor Rotation (Based on League of California Cities Data from 2005) No. Ci Population Salary 1 Arcadia 53,054 $500 2 Bellflower 72,828 $830 3 Camarillo 59,500 $750 4 Cerritos 51,488 $941.90 5 Chico 62,000 $600 6 Chino Hills 69,183 $400 7 Clovis 70,834 $825 8 Cypress 50,000 $621 9 Diamond Bar 57,000 $500 10 Encinitas 60,000 $814.45 11 Folsom 52,700 $400 12 Hemet 62,751 $606.38 13 Hesperia 63,000 $300 14 Huntington Park 63,626 $975.12 15 La Habra 58,974 $500 16 Laguna Niguel 59,700 $400 17 Lynwood 68,532 $800 18 Montebello 64,952 $695 19 Monterey Park 62,181 $500 20 Ne rt Beach 74,000 $936.91 21 Palo Alto 62,000 $600 22 Paramount 55,266 $791.98 23 Pico Rivera 65,651 $747.50 24 Piftsburg 54,400 $500 25 Placentia 50,000 $150 26 Redlands 67,771 $500 27 Rosemead 53,505 $920.30 28 San Clemente 52,455 $400 29 Santa Cruz 54,593 $1,000 30 South San Francisco 62,551 $500 31 Temecula 67,000 $800 32 Tustin 67,504 $675 33 Victorville 68,318 $500 34 Walnut Creek 63,000 $500 35 Woodland 50,614 $250 36 Yorba Linda 68,000 $500 Average Base Salary for All 35 Cities - $617.52 ($22,230.54 , 36)