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Article 4. Salaries And Expenses of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 4.

(a) The board of supervisors may allow, as compensation, to each member of the county board of education a sum not to exceed the following amounts:
  (1) In any class one county, each member of the county board of education who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600) per month.
  (2) In any class two county, each member of the county board of education who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed four hundred dollars ($400) per month.
  (3) In any class three county, each member of the county board of education who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300) per month.
  (4) In any class four county, each member of the county board of education who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per month.
  (5) In any class five, class six, class seven, or class eight county, each member of the county board of education who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed one hundred sixty dollars ($160) per month.
  (b) Any member who does not attend all meetings held in any month may receive as compensation for his or her services an amount not greater than the maximum amount allowed by subdivision (a) divided by the number of meetings held, and multiplied by the number of meetings actually attended.
  (c) The amount of compensation shall be determined by the county board of supervisors, or, in a county having a fiscally independent county board of education, by the county board of education.
  (d) A member of a county board of education may be paid for any meeting for which he or she is absent if the board by resolution duly adopted and included within its minutes finds that at the time of the meeting he or she was performing services outside the meeting on behalf of the board, he or she was ill or on jury duty, or the absence was due to a hardship deemed acceptable by the board.
  (e) There may also be allowed to each member who uses a privately owned automobile in the discharge of necessary official duties as a member of the county board of education, the same amount as allowed by any county official in the performance of his or her official duties. The mileage rate allowed in this section shall be based on the total mileage claimed in a calendar month.
  (f) For purposes of this section, the classification of counties shall be determined pursuant to Section 1205.
  (g) On an annual basis, the county board of education may increase the compensation of individual board members beyond the limits delineated in this section, in an amount not to exceed 5 percent based on the present monthly rate of compensation. Any increase made pursuant to this section shall be effective upon approval by the county board of education. This action may be rejected by a majority of the voters in that county voting in a referendum established for that purpose, as prescribed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 9100) of Division 9 of the Elections Code.
If the members of the board of supervisors of any county are not allowed mileage, the board of supervisors of the county shall allow to each member of the county board of education of that county actual and necessary traveling expenses not exceeding twenty-five cents ($0.25) per mile one way in attending the meetings of the board.
The secretary may be allowed the sum of ten dollars ($10) per day for the actual time that the board may be in session.
Compensation of the members of the board, shall be payable out of the county general fund.
Expenses for printing required by the county board of education, and all incidental expenses incurred for stationery or other purposes in the performance of its duties, shall be audited and paid as other claims against the general fund of the county are paid.
The county board of education may subscribe for membership in, or otherwise become a member of, any state or local organization of governing boards of school districts or members thereof, or of county boards of education or members thereof, or both, which has for its primary purpose the promotion and advancement of public education through research and investigation, and the cooperation with persons and associations whose interests and purposes are the betterment of the educational opportunities of the children of the state. The costs incurred for the purposes of this section shall be payable out of the county general fund.
The county board of education of each county may select a member or members of the board to attend meetings of any society, association, or organization for which the board has subscribed for membership, or any convention to which the governing board of a school district or a community college district may pay the expenses of any employee. The actual expenses of the member or members shall be allowed and paid out of the county general fund with prior budgetary approval.
Whenever a tax rate or portion thereof is levied by any county for the support of its county board of education and superintendent of schools, the assessed valuation of all, but only such portions of elementary and unified school districts under its jurisdiction, shall be considered. The tax rate or portion thereof so computed shall be levied uniformly in all such areas, irrespective of the county in which situated. All moneys collected in surrounding counties from the levy of such tax rate or portion thereof shall be remitted by the respective county auditors to the auditor of the county of jurisdiction and shall be deposited by him to the credit of the fund or funds from which the support of his county board of education and superintendent of schools is derived. This section shall be applicable to a chartered county if Section 1001 is applicable to it.