Plan to Slow Officials’ Raises Placed on Ballot
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to place a measure on the November ballot to slow the steep rise in the salary of the county’s two highest paid elected officials: Sheriff Sherman Block and Assessor Kenneth Hahn.
The charter amendment, if approved by the voters, would eliminate the automatic 5% annual pay increase for the sheriff and assessor that combined with other board actions has driven Block’s annual salary to $222,872 and Hahn’s to $175,377.
Instead, the two officials would receive an annual raise based on the change in the consumer price index, not to exceed 4%.
The supervisors also voted unanimously to place a separate measure on the ballot to allow them the flexibility to create about 200 high-level administrative positions exempt from the county’s Civil Service system.
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