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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Action Agenda Item Abstract <br />Meeting Date: June 1, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9-f <br />Subject: County Commissioners Compensation Policy <br />Department: County Commissioners Public Hearing: <br />Budget Amendment <br />Needed: Yes No X <br /> <br />Yes No X <br />Attachment(s): Information Contact: <br />Draft Policy - Alice Gordon, Chair <br />Commissioners' Compensation Adjustment <br /> Telephone Number: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 227-203? <br />Purpose: To consider adopting a policy providing for the compensation of <br />County Commissioners to be adjusted each year by the percentage <br />amount equivalent to the In-Range Increase amount the Board <br />authorizes for permanent employees. <br />Background: Under State law the Board of Commissioners fixes the compensation <br />of its members. It may do so annually by inclusion of the amount of <br />compensation in the annual Budget Ordinance and by adoption of that <br />Ordinance. The purpose of the attached policy is to direct how the <br />Budget Ordinance is to be prepared each year. <br />Specifically the draft policy would provide that Commissioners' <br />compensation would be adjusted as of December 1 each year by the <br />percentage amount equivalent to the In-Range Increase amount <br />established for permanent County employees in that fiscal year. For <br />example: If the Board establishes 2.5 percent as the employee In- <br />Range Increase amount for fiscal year 1999-00, the Budget Ordinance <br />would incorporate this amount and each Commissioners' <br />compensation would increase by 2.5 percent effective December 1. <br />This is similar to the policy the Board adopted in 1991 that provides <br />that the cost of living adjustment is applied to Commissioners' <br />compensation as it is applied to County employee salaries. <br />