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Placer County supes want voters to approve raise


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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee

Supervisors in fiscally conservative Placer County took the unusual step last week of asking voters to more than double their salaries and provide access to county health and retirement benefits.

The five-member Board of Supervisors voted unanimously for the November ballot proposal, pointing to data showing that their compensation falls well below their regional peers after a 1992 voter initiative capped their compensation.

Currently, supervisors receive $30,000 annually and no benefits. If voters pass the proposed county charter amendment, salaries would rise to an estimated $71,755 in January 2015, based on the average supervisor wages in neighboring counties.

The latest push to raise supervisor salaries comes after the county Charter review committee recommended in January that supervisors receive a pay hike. Two previous bids failed, first in 1998 to pay $35,000 annually and again in 2008 to pay $48,000. Nearly 75 percent of voters rejected the latter proposal, according to the Placer County Elections Office.

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  1. dumbfounded says - Posted: August 3, 2014

    Sure doesn’t sound like “fiscal conservative” policy to me. But, our politicians always have sufficient budget for their raises. And this raise is a whopper. Has anyone in the private sector gotten a raise of over 100% in their job, ever?

  2. Steve says - Posted: August 3, 2014

    Placer County voters should be cautioned that a similarly huge raise for neighboring El Dorado County Supervisors a couple years ago, orchestrated by the supervisors themselves, resulted in a clear downgrade in the quality and qualifications of those seeking the higher paid positions. The net result was a fleecing of the taxpayers.

  3. rock4tahoe says - Posted: August 3, 2014

    Ok “Steve.” How much should a County Supervisor make according to you?