(A) Each Ballot Commissioner shall be allowed and paid a sum, to be fixed by the Council, not exceeding an amount set by Council from time to time for each day he or she shall serve as such, but in no case shall a Ballot Commissioner receive allowance for more than ten days services in any one election.
(B) Each election commissioner and poll clerk, including alternates, shall be allowed and paid a sum, to be fixed by the Council, not exceeding an amount set by Council from time to time, for one day's service for attending the school of instruction for election officials.
(C) Each election commissioner and poll clerk shall be allowed and paid a sum, to be fixed by the Council, not exceeding an amount set by Council from time to time, for services at any one election. The sum to be allowed and paid to Commissioners of Election and poll clerks is herewith set at an amount set by Council from time to time.
(D) Each alternate election commissioner and poll clerk may be paid a sum, to be fixed by the Council, not exceeding an amount set by Council from time to time, for one day’s service for attending the school of instruction for election officials.
(E) The Commissioners of Elections or poll clerks obtaining and delivering the election supplies and returning them are to be paid an additional sum, to be fixed by the Council, not to exceed an amount set by Council from time to time. In addition, the Commissioner of Elections or poll clerk is to be paid mileage up to the rate of reimbursement authorized by the travel management rule of the Department of Personnel for each mile necessarily traveled in the performance of his or her services.
(F) The compensation of election officers, the cost of printing ballots and all other expenses incurred in holding and making the return of elections shall be audited by the Council and paid out of the city treasury.
(Ord. 310, passed 1-19-2023)