Marin County Grand Jury
• 2024-2025
• Agency Response
Response to:
Marin's Telecommunications Disconnect
Central Marin Sanitation Agency[PDF]*
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F4
Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F2
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. CMSA agrees with this finding. Links to the Public Pay website pages are within three clicks of the CMSA homepage, and should be able to be found within a few minutes.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
No later than 90 days after the date of this report, agencies should modify the location of their existing publicpay.ca.gov links to satisfy the requirement of Government Code Section 53908 that their link be "conspicuous." Will be Implemented: CMSA is near completion of a major website reformatting and updating project. The Public Pay website link for employee compensation will be located on a new employee salary page under the Agency Finance section of the site, and the Board member compensation link will be made more obvious by moving it to the top of the Governing Board page and enlarging it. Our website project should be completed within the next month.
F3
Any link to publicpay.ca.gov on an agency's website that fails to go directly to the agency's current compensation data on that website does not satisfy the intent of the Government Code that information be easily located. CMSA agrees with this finding. We visited the CMSA page on the Public Pay website and found it very easy to check the current compensation data by using the "date" pull down menu.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
No later than 90 days after the date of this report, agencies should modify their existing publicpay.ca.gov links so that they provide a direct link to their current compensation data on the state site. To eliminate the need for annual updates, the URL used for the link should exclude any parameter specifying a year. Formatted URL examples are shown on
F5
Regarding detailed disclosure of total compensation paid, most public agencies do not break out all components of compensation paid to their elected officials, including salary, meeting fees or stipends (including compensation for serving as liaison to other advisory committees, councils and forums), reimbursements, health and retirement benefits, and other benefits such as equipment. CMSA agrees with this finding. From the report, we understand that MMWD and NMWD provide detailed compensation information for their elected officials, but we not are aware of the reporting practices or details of the other audited public agencies. CMSA'S RESPONSES TO RECOMMENDATIONS
No recommendations for this finding
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