SECTIONS 1090-1097 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 1090-1097

1090. (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.

1091. 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.

1092. The secretary may be allowed the sum of ten dollars ($10) per
day for the actual time that the board may be in session.

1093. Compensation of the members of the board, shall be payable
out of the county general fund.

1094. 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.

1095. 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.

1096. 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.

1097. 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.