Today, San Luis Obispo county supervisors to discuss giving themselves a 26% pay raise. If approved, their base salary would go from $90 thousand dollars a year to $114 thousand dollars a year.
The supervisors will also discuss connecting the supervisors salary raises with California superior court judge raises. They would automatically get 50% of the bottom salary range of California superior court judges.
Some perceive this pay increase as the latest in a series of decisions by the new progressive majority to fundamentally transform San Luis Obispo county.
The new majority has already made changes to the county. They’ve thrown out the Patten Map for supervisors districts. They’ve changed the make up of the Paso Robles groundwater basin management. They threw out Debbie Arnold’s Planters Ordinance which would have provided small family farms a sustainable amount of water. They also fired county administrative officer Wade Horton, who was immediately hired by Santa Barbara county.
Today, the progressive majority will vote themselves a 26% pay raise. When the issue was put before the supervisors two weeks ago, supervisors Debbie Arnold and John Peschong voted against putting the pay raise on today’s agenda.
