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Orange County Board of Commissioners Action Agenda Item Abstract Meeting Date: June 1, 1999 Subject: County Commissioners Compensation Policy Department: County Commissioners Attachment(s): Draft Policy — Commissioners' Compensation Adjustment Action Agenda Item No. 9 -f Public Hearing: Yes No X Budget Amendment Needed: Yes No X Information Contact: Alice Gordon, Chair Telephone Number: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 227 -2031 Purpose: To consider adopting a policy providing for the compensation of County Commissioners to be adjusted each year by the percentage amount equivalent to the In -Range Increase amount the Board authorizes for permanent employees. Background: Under State law the Board of Commissioners fixes the compensation of its members. It may do so annually by inclusion of the amount of compensation in the annual Budget Ordinance and by adoption of that Ordinance. The purpose of the attached policy is to direct how the Budget Ordinance is to be prepared each year. Specifically the draft policy would provide that Commissioners' compensation would be adjusted as of December 1 each year by the percentage amount equivalent to the In -Range Increase amount established for permanent County employees in that fiscal year. For example: If the Board establishes 2.5 percent as the employee In- Range Increase amount for fiscal year 1999 -00, the Budget Ordinance would incorporate this amount and each Commissioners' compensation would increase by 2.5 percent effective December 1. This is similar to the policy the Board adopted in 1991 that provides that the cost of living adjustment is applied to Commissioners' compensation as it is applied to County employee salaries.