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Consider recommendations regarding an amendment to the Ordinance setting compensation and benefits for members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, as follows:
a) Consider the adoption (second reading) of an Ordinance which amends Ordinance 5119 setting compensation and benefits for members of the Board of Supervisors, as follows:
i) Effective sixty (60) days after Board approval, increase the cap on the available percentage for salary increases for members of the Board of Supervisors and Chair allowance from 3% to 5%;
ii) Effective sixty (60) days after Board approval, move the timing of salary adjustments for members of the Board of Supervisors and Chair allowance from Pay Period 01 (typically in mid-December) to the pay period in which October 1 falls; and
iii) Effective Pay Period 2023-21 (September 18, 2023), increase the salaries for members of the Board of Supervisors and increase the Chair allowance by 5% based on the October 2022 CPI-U; and
b) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in potential physical impacts on the environment, and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA guidelines.