(A) The fee/compensation for grand jurors shall be $15 a day for each day’s attendance as a grand juror, or at such increased rate as state law may hereinafter establish, not to exceed one per diem fee per day and a maximum of eight per month.
(1) To receive reimbursement, the meeting, event, training, and/or investigation must be a minimum of two hours exceptions may be approved by the majority of the Grand Jury. Non-specific general interest attendances at county or city agency meetings are not reimbursable.
(2) Members of the Grand Jury shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary mileage driven in their private vehicles to and from attendance at any committee meeting of the Grand Jury; facility; or authorized interviews with witnesses in connection with approved Grand Jury investigations.
(3) The rates applicable to the county employees under the county’s travel and reimbursement policies, apply to the Grand Jury. Grand Jury members are encouraged to carpool when possible.
(4) Members of the Grand Jury shall be reimbursed for actual travel expenses incurred for out-of-county travel to attend grand juror training, upon advance authorization of the majority of the Grand Jury, and if sufficient funds are available in the Grand Jury’s budget.
(B) Members of the Grand Jury shall be reimbursed for actual travel expenses incurred for out-of-county travel to attend grand juror training, upon advance authorization of the foreperson and the County Administrative Officer, and not to exceed the amount budgeted for training in the Grand Jury’s annual budget.
(C) Any reimbursement allowed pursuant to this section shall be made upon those conditions and at those rates applicable to the county employees under the county’s travel and reimbursement policies, and shall be charged against the current operating budget for the Grand Jury. Grand Jury members are encouraged to carpool when possible.
(Ord. 889, § 1; Ord. 934, § 1, 2015; Ord. 987, § 1, 2019)