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Many Marin public agencies fail to include on their websites either a link to the publicpay.ca.gov site showing compensation for their elected officials, officers, and employees, or a table showing such data. The Grand Jury determined that these agencies fail to comply with the requirements of Government Code Section 53908. Response: Partially Disagree It is true that at the time of the advanced copy of the report, there was not a link to the publicpay.ca.gov site on the Central Marin Fire website. In the fire chief's response to the advance copy he indicated that this is due to the fact that the agency was formed so recently that compensation data does not yet appear on the publicpay.ca.gov site. This fact was acknowledged in the report, as was the fact that no agency specific link is yet available for the Fire Authority on the publicpay.ca.gov site. The chief advised in his response to the advanced copy that, in an attempt to comply with the spirit and intention of the report a conspicuous link had been added that would take the reader to the main home page of publicpay.ca.gov. This was the best that could be done until an agency specific link is available on the referenced site. Compensation data was, and still is available within 3 clicks from the home page as is recommended in the report. After review of the advanced copy, the chief advised that he added a conspicuous link to Adopted Resolutions Including Salary and Benefit Information on the page recommended in the report. Although this page was always accessible through the Authority's website, and accessible within the "same number of clicks," it was located on the "Fire Council" page instead of the "Finance" page. The information is now accessible from both locations.

Any link to compensation data on an agency's website that takes more than five minutes or three clicks from the home page to locate, does not reasonably satisfy the intent of the Government Code that the information be easily located and "conspicuous" on the agency's website. Wholly Disagree Response: 342 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925 ~ Phone: (415)927-5077 Fax: (415)927-5788 ~ centralmarinfire.org As discussed above, compensation data was and still is accessible within 3 clicks from the homepage of the Authority's website, however it was located on the "Fire Council" page instead of the "Finance" page as was recommended in the report. The information is now accessible from both locations.