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Report regarding an ordinance amending Title 2 and Title 20 of the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code, adopting Chapter 2.84 to allow for setting compensation of advisory body members by city council resolution, and adopting a resolution setting compensation for advisory body members. (Sky Woodruff, City Attorney)
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council introduce and waive reading of an ordinance amending Title 2 and Title 20 of the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code and adopting Chapter 2.84 to allow for setting compensation of advisory body members by city council resolution, and adopting a resolution setting compensation for advisory body members.
BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
Title 2 (Administration) of the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code (“Municipal Code”) provides for the establishment of several commissions, committees, and boards (herein collectively referred to as “advisory bodies”), including the Public Library Board of Trustees, Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, Personnel Board, Parking Place Commission, Conference Center Authority, Cultural Arts Commission, Traffic Safety Commission, Bicycling and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, and the Youth Commission. Municipal Code Sections 2.52.070, 2.56.060, 2.60.060, 2.62.060, 2.64.060, 2.78.080, 2.80.080, 2.81.060, 2.82.060, and 2.83.060 currently provide that compensation for each advisory body member is fifty dollars for each regular meeting actually attended. Municipal Code Section 2.81.060 further provides that members of the parking place commission will receive fifty dollars total for attending either a parking place commission or a traffic safety commission meeting or for attending both meetings consecutively on the same day and will not receive one hundred dollars for attending both the parking place commission and the traffic safety commission meetings consecutively on the same day. Municipal Code Section 20.440.005 establishes that Design Review Board members will be compensated according to the schedule adopted by the City Council.
Staff recommends that City Council introduce an ordinance amending Title 2 and Title 20 of the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code to remove the individual sections setting advisory body member compensation amounts, and adopt Chapter 2.84 to allow for setting compensation of advisory body members by city council resolution. Staff further recommends City Council adopt a resolution setting the compensation for advisory body members at one hundred dollars for each regular meeting actually attended. Furthermore staff recommends that the resolution establish that members of both the parking place commission and traffic safety commission will receive one hundred dollars total for attending either a parking place commission or a traffic safety commission meeting or for attending both meetings consecutively on the same day and will not receive one hundred dollars for attending both the parking place commission and the traffic safety commission meetings consecutively on the same day. The resolution would also establish that the Housing Authority commissioner stipend of fifty dollars for each scheduled regular meeting attended, established pursuant to City Council Resolution 5-2000, would be superseded, establishing the compensation amount of one-hundred dollars for all compensated advisory body members.
FISCAL IMPACT
At the current $50 per meeting compensation level for advisory body members, the total annual cost is approximately $50,000, and changes depending upon the vacancy rates and frequency of meetings. If the compensation level were increased to $100 per meeting, the total annual cost would double, with an approximate total cost impact to the City of $100,000.
CONCLUSION
It is recommended that the City Council introduce and waive reading of an ordinance amending Title 2 and Title 20 of the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code, adopting Chapter 2.84 to allow for setting compensation of advisory body members by city council resolution, and adopt a resolution setting compensation for advisory body members.