(A) Purpose. This section is enacted under Cal. Gov’t Code § 36516 which authorizes a City Council to provide by ordinance that each member of the Council may receive a salary based upon the population of the city as determined by estimates made by the State Department of Finance.
(B) Population. On the date this section is adopted, the latest estimate of population of the city made by the State Department of Finance is 15,448.
(C) Salaries. Each member of the City Council may receive the sum of $250 per month as prescribed in Cal. Gov’t Code § 36516 for a city having a population of up to and including 35,000. The Mayor may receive $300 per month.
(D) Increase or decrease. When the State Department of Finance makes a new estimate of population placing the city in a population group other than set forth in subsection (C) of this section, the salary, payable to each member of the Council, shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in order to equal the sum set forth for that population group in Cal. Gov’t Code § 36516. However, the increase or decrease in the salary becomes payable only after the date when one or more members of the Council become eligible for the new salary beginning a new term of office following the succeeding general municipal election held in the city.
(Ord. 331, passed 5-19-1987)