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This week State Controller John Chiang updated his Web site with the salary, pension benefits and other employee compensation for several hundred special districts including library, mosquito abatement, conservation, air quality and airport agencies covering the 2009 fiscal year.
The information can be found at www.sco.ca.gov/compensation_search.html.
In the wake of concerns about public employee salaries resulting from abuses discovered in the Southern California city of Bell, Chiang started the compensation reporting Web site last October.
Since then, Chiang's office has collected and posted wage information for more than 600,000 city and county employees.
He followed that by ordering special districts across the state to report the same information, and the first 1,925 districts were loaded between February and April of this year.
Compensation information for employees of special districts has been collected and posted on the Web site in four phases.
The fourth and final phase posted this week includes almost $457 million in payroll reported by 454 local agencies, according to Chiang's office.
Chiang's last update to his site took place on April 26, as Lake County News has reported.
The compensation reporting Web site covers elected officials as well as public employees, and includes minimum and maximum salary ranges; actual wages paid; the applicable retirement formula; any contributions by the employer to the employee’s share of pension costs; any contributions by the employer to the employee’s deferred compensation plan; and any employer payments for the employee’s health, vision and dental premium benefits.
There are 33 special districts in Lake County, 26 of which had submitted information by the last deadline.
Four districts – Flood Control Maintenance Area No. 17, Reclamation District No. 2070, Scotts Valley Water Conservation District and Villa Blue Resource Conservation District – have no data available, according to the report.
The newest information includes calendar year 2009 compensation reports for Lake County Vector Control, West Lake Resource Conservation District and East Lake Resource Conservation District.
Vector Control has a five-member board of directors whose members received between $300 and $600 in compensation for 2009, the data showed.
The 2009 data showed that there were 10 paid positions, nine of which were full-time. The lowest paid full-time position, a temporary vector control technician, received a salary totaling $23,267 .
The highest paid-position, the district manager job held by Dr. Jamesina Scott, received $118,081 in compensation that year, and $18,606 in health, dental and vision.
The West Lake Resource Conservation District has five unpaid board directors and 12 paid positions, ranging from a project coordinator paid $1,849 up to Watershed Coordinator and District Manager Greg Dills, who received $58,879 in salary and no benefits.
The East Lake Resource Conservation District also has five unpaid board members, as well as three paid staffers.
Dills – who also is watershed coordinator and district manager in his shared capacity with West Lake – was paid $1,619 for the year by East Lake, a secretary clerk received $5,100 in compensation and $1,790 in health, dental and vision, and a project coordinator was paid $32,286 with no benefits.
The Controller's Office reported that 80 percent of all special districts in the final phase followed the new reporting requirements.
Each noncomplying agency could face a penalty of $5,000. Postings are updated weekly with any new information received.
Still to come – Chiang anticipates loading similar compensation information for state employees later this month.
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