SECTIONS 35120-35124 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 35120-35124

35120. (a) (1) In any school district in which the average daily
attendance for the prior school year exceeded 400,000, each member of
the city board of education or the governing board of the district
who actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation
for his or her services a sum not to exceed two thousand dollars
($2,000) per month.
(2) In any school district that is not located in a city and
county, and in which the average daily attendance for the prior
school year exceeded 60,000, the governing board may prescribe, as
compensation for the services of each member of the board who
actually attends all meetings held, a sum not to exceed one thousand
five hundred dollars ($1,500) in any month.
(3) In any school district in which the average daily attendance
for the prior school year was 60,000, or less, but more than 25,000,
each member of the city board of education or the governing board of
the district who actually attends all meetings held may receive as
compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed seven
hundred fifty dollars ($750) in any month.
(4) In any school district in which the average daily attendance
for the prior school year was 25,000, or less, but more than 10,000,
each member of the city board of education or the governing board of
the district who actually attends all meetings held may receive as
compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed four hundred
dollars ($400) in any month.
(5) In any school district in which the average daily attendance
for the prior school year was 10,000 or less but more than 1,000,
each member of the city board of education or the governing board of
the district who actually attends all meetings held may receive as
compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed two hundred
forty dollars ($240) in any month.
(6) In any school district in which the average daily attendance
for the prior school year was 1,000 or less but more than 150, each
member of the city board of education or the governing board of the
district who actually attends all meetings held may receive as
compensation for his or her services a sum not to exceed one hundred
twenty dollars ($120) in any month.
(7) In any school district in which the average daily attendance
for the prior school year was less than 150, each member of the city
board of education or the governing board of the district who
actually attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for
his or her services a sum not to exceed sixty dollars ($60) per
month.
(8) 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 this subdivision divided
by the number of meetings held and multiplied by the number of
meetings actually attended.
(9) For the purposes of providing compensation pursuant to
paragraphs (1) to (7), inclusive, average daily attendance for the
prior school year may be increased by a school district's percentage
of excused absences reported for the 1996-97 fiscal year.
(b) The compensation of members of the governing board of a school
district newly organized or reorganized shall be governed by
subdivision (a). For this purpose, the total average daily attendance
in all of the schools of the district in the school year in which
the organization or reorganization became effective pursuant to
Section 4062 shall be deemed to be the average daily attendance in
the district for the prior school year.
(c) A member may be paid for any meeting when absent if the board
by resolution duly adopted and included in its minutes finds that at
the time of the meeting he or she is performing services outside the
meeting for the school district or districts, he or she was ill or on
jury duty, or the absence was due to a hardship deemed acceptable by
the board.
(d) The compensation shall be a charge against the funds of the
school district. If the city board of education or the governing
board of the district is the governing board of more than one school
district, the compensation shall be charged against and paid by the
respective school districts in the same proportion as the salary of
the city superintendent of schools is charged against them.
Compensation shall be reduced by an amount equal to any salary or
compensation paid to the members of the city board of education from
any funds of the city.
(e) On an annual basis, the governing board 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 governing board.

35121. In any school district organized under the provisions of
Section 35502 and which is also a high school district, and which
districts are governed by a board of school trustees, and which
districts have an average daily attendance in the elementary school
district of at least 800, as shown by the last report of the
principal of schools in the elementary school district, on file in
the office of the county superintendent of schools, the trustees of
the school district may appoint a clerk, who shall not be one of
their own number, to act for the elementary district trustees and the
high school district trustees to hold office at the pleasure of the
board of trustees. The board may fix the salary of the clerk at a sum
not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) per month for the two
districts, which shall be paid in the same manner and from the same
funds as other incidental expenses of the districts are paid.

35124. The superintendent of schools of a unified school district
that is coterminous with the boundaries of a city and county shall
have all the powers and duties set forth in this code for a
superintendent of any school district of the class of school that is
included within the unified school district and also shall perform
the duties of the county superintendent. The superintendent shall
have his or her compensation fixed and ordered paid by the board of
education, anything in a city, county, or city and county charter to
the contrary notwithstanding.