Solano Community College District Policies

Governing Board Policies
Series 1000

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COMPENSATION, PAYMENT OF EXPENSES AND BENEFITS 1014

POLICY:
Members of the Board who attend all Board meetings shall receive $240 per month and the student member $150 per month. A member of the Board who does not attend all meetings held by the Board in any month shall receive, as compensation, an amount not greater than the pro rata share of the number of meetings actually attended. A member of the Board may be paid for a meeting when absent if the Board, by resolution, finds that at the time of the meeting the member is performing services outside the meeting for the Community College District, is ill, on jury duty, or the absence is due to a hardship deemed acceptable by the Board.

Board members shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in carrying out the authorized duties and responsibilities of the Board. These include expenses incurred in travel on District business and authorized attendance at conferences or professional meetings. The Student Trustee shall be compensated for mileage to attend Governing Board meetings.

Members of the Board (except the Student Trustee) shall be permitted to participate in the District’s health benefit programs.

Former members of the Board may continue to participate in the District’s health benefits programs upon leaving the Board if the following criteria are met: the member must have begun service on the Board after January 1, 1981; the member must have been first elected to the Board before January 1, 1995; and the member must have served at least 12 years. All other former Board members may continue to participate in the District’s health benefits programs on a self- pay basis.

Board members who are elected or appointed to the Board after their retirement as employees of the District may elect to postpone or suspend their receipt of District-paid health benefits which they are eligible to receive as retired employees of the District and instead receive District-paid benefits under this policy. For purposes of their entitlement to District-paid health and vision insurance as retired District employees, such Board member shall be treated as having retired from the District on the date their membership on the Board terminates. However, their period of eligibility for retired employee benefits shall not exceed a total of ten (10) years not including the time served as Board members.


REFERENCES/
AUTHORITY:
Government Code Section 53201
California Education Code Sections 1090, 35120, 72024 72023.5, 72423

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ADOPTED: July 7, 1982
REVISED: March 18, 1987; May 19, 1999; September 5, 2001; June 6, 2007

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