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AGENDA STATEMENT
CITY COUNCI'L MEETTNG DATE: May 7, 2002
SUBJECT: Public Hearing: Amendment to Dublin Municipal Code to Provide
for Increase in the Salary for Members of the City Council
Report prepared by Elizabeth H. Silver, City Attorney and
Kay Keck, City Clerk
ATTACHMENTS: 1) Proposed Ordinance Amending Section 2.08.020 of the
Dublin Municipal Code
2) Dublin Municipal Code SeCtion 2.08,020
3) Ordinance No. 23 - 99
RECOMMENDATION: 1) Open public hearing
2) Receive Staff Report and Public Comments
~ ~,~tf'~ 3) Question Staff and the Public
4) Close public hearing and Deliberate
5) Waive reading and introduce Ordinance amending
Section 2.08.020 of the DMC to provide for an increase
in the salary for members of the City Council
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: The Ordinance would increase the salary for members of the City
Council in an amount equal to 5% of the current $565.68 monthly
compensation for calendar years 2001 and 2002, for a total of
$623.66 monthly compensation.
DESCRIPTION: Government Code Section 36516(a)(1) allows a general law city
with a population under 35,000 to provide a salary to Councilmembers of $300 per month. Compensation
may be increased by ordinance "not to exceed an amount equal to 5% or less for each calendar year from
the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment was
enacted" (Government Code Section 36516(c).
Councilmembers currently receive $565.68 per month as compensation. The Dublin City Council last
adjusted salaries for the Council in October of 1999. The increase was effective after the November 2000
election.
The attached Ordinance will increase salaries for calendar years 2001 and 2002, as follows:
Current compensation $565.68
2001 increase $593.96
2002 increase $623.66
COPIES TO: ITEM NO. _~~4
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The attached Ordinance increases the monthly compensation to $623.66 for each City Councilmember. In
accordance with Dublin Municipal Code Section 2.08.020 B and state law, the increase will be effective
after the next election, which is in November 2002.
The Mayor's salary will include an additional $100 per month, pursuant to DMC Section 2.08.040.
Kecommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council conduct a public hearing, deliberate, waive the reading and
introduce the draft Ordinance and continue the matter to the next Council meeting to adopt the Ordinance.
ORDINANCE NO. - 02
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
AMENDING DUBLIN MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.08.020 AND
PROVIDING FOR AN INCREASE IN THE SALARY
FOR MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. PURPOSE
Ordinance No, 6-82 established salaries for members of the City Council, as amended by
Ordinances No. 22-85, 8-87, 4-88, 3-89, 1-90, 6-91 and 23-99. The purpose of this Ordinance is to
modify salaries for members of the City Council in accordance with Government Code Section 36516.
Section 2: AMENDMENT OF MUNICIPAL CODE
Section 2.08.020, Subsection A of the Dublin Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows: Pursuant to Section 36516 of the Government Code which provides that a City Council may
enact an ordinance providing that each member of the City Council shall receive a salary which shall be
determined by a schedule of population for cities, the members of the City Council shall receive a salary
of six hundred twenty three dollars and sixty six cents ($623.66) per momh.
Section 3: EFFECTIVE DATE AND POSTING OF ORDINANCE
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from and after the date of
its passage. The City Clerk of the City of Dublin shall cause this Ordinance to be posted in at least three
(3) public places in the City of Dublin in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government code of the
State of California.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Dublin this __ day.
of May, 2002, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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ATTACHMENT 1
2.08.010
Chapter 2.08 B. No Councilmember shall be eligible
to receive the increase provided heizin umil
CITY COUNCIL one er.more Councilmember begins a new
term of office. . (Ord. 23-99 § 2; Ord. 6-91
Sections: § 2; Ord. 1,90 § 2; Ord. 3~89 §§ 2, 3: Ord.
2.08.010 Mee~ng place 4-88 §§ 2, 3: Ord. 8-87 §§ 3, 4: Ord. 22-85
deg~na~ § 3: Ord. 6, 1982)
2.08.020 Salary for members
2.08.030 Election of mayor and com~etlmembm, s--T~rm of
coua_~mm~b~rs--T~ offiee.
of office. A. The electors shall hereafter elec~ a
2.08.040 Mayor's salary. Mayor and four (4) city Council~be~.
2.08.0~0 Term ~,mits. B. The term of office of the Mayor shall
be two (2) years. (Ord. 11-92 §§ I, 2)
z.0sm0 phce
A. The City Council will hold all regular 2.08.040 Mayor's salary.
meetings in the Council Chambers at the The Maycr shall receive a monthly ~ary
Dublin Civic Center, local~l .at 100 Civic of one hundred dollar~ ($100), in addition
Pl~: in the citY. to that which he/she receives as a
B. If the regular meeting place is unable Councilmember. (Ord. 13-92 § 2)
to accomm0da~e the number of persons in
aRendance, the Council .may recess the ~08,0~. T~n'limit~.
.meeting to another phce. If the Council No person shall serve as Councilmember
amicipates that the regular rnoet~g place for more than two (2) consecutive terms,
will be inadequate, the Council, or Mayor nor shall any person serve as Mayor for
in the event of an emergency, may order m°re than four (4) consecutive temps. In
that the meeting be held in another place, addition: (a) no person who has served as
(Ord. 14-89 §§ 1, 2) a Councilmember for one (1) term shall
serve more lban two (2) terms as Mayor if
:2.08.020 Salary for members the,terms as Councilmember and Mayor a~e
· established, consecutive; Co) no person who has served
A. pursuant to Section 36516 of the as Councilmember for two (2)consecutive
C]ovemnmnt Code which provides that a terms shall serve a consecutive term as
City Council may enact an ordinance pro- Mayor, (c) no person who has served as
riding ~at each member of the City Court- .Mayor for three (~) or four (4) consecutive
ciI shall receive a salary which shall be terms shall serve a consecutive term as a
de~-,~xl by a schedule'of population for 'Coun~ (d) no ~rson who has
cities, the members of the City Council served as Mayor for two (2) consecutive
shall receive a salary of five hundred sixty- terms shall serve more than one (1) succe-
five dollars and sixly-eight cents ($~6~.68) eding consecutive term as C°unci~;
per month. (e) no person who has served consecmive
ATTACHMENT 2