Marin County Grand Jury • 2024-2025 • Agency Response

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Published: July 23, 2020 7 pages
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Findings and Recommendations 4 findings

F1
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: Agree The Bolinas Fire Protection District website now has a link to the publicpay.ca.gov site showing compensation amounts for our elected officials.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
To comply with the intent of Government Code Section 53908, no later than 90 days after the date of this report, agencies should include on their websites a link to the publicpay.ca.gov site showing compensation of their elected officials, officers, and employees using the formatted URL examples that are shown in the
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. Response: Agree The Bolinas Fire Protection District website provides a link to compensation data in an easy to find location that is two clicks from the Homepage. 1. From the Home Page go to: District Board/Board Members under the heading Reimbursement & Compensation Policy
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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. Response: Agree The Bolinas Fire Protection District website now provides a link that goes directly to the agency's current compensation data on the publicpay.ca.gov webpage.
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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 the
F4
Regarding compensation policies for elected officials, many public agencies do not provide the public with easy access to information regarding salary, meeting fees or stipends (including compensation for serving as liaison to other advisory committees, council and forums), reimbursements, health and retirement benefits, and other benefits such as equipment. Response: Agree The Bolinas Fire Protection District does not offer any form of compensation, reimbursements, and health or retirement benefits to the elected officials. This information is located in an easy to find location on the website with a link to the publicpay.ca.gov webpage. COLUMN TO SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERV al . . 0.0
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R4
No later than 90 days after the date of this report, in addition to any other compensation links, agencies should include a link on their board or council web pages that leads directly to their "elected officials" page on the publicpay.ca.gov site, conforming to the format suggested on

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