Drafter

Clerk 10/05/2022

Title

AN ORDINANCE relating to compensation for members of the boards of appeals and equalization; amending Ordinance 6444, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.34.050 and establishing an effective date.

Body

PREAMBLE:

The board of appeals and equalization provides essential services to the citizens of King County.  The per diem compensation for board members was last increased on January 1, 2016.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  Ordinance 6444, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.34.050 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     A.  If scheduled to work for three or more hours a day, a board member or hearing examiner shall receive a per diem allowance of three hundred seventy-five dollars.  If scheduled to work for less than three hours a day, a board member or hearing examiner shall receive a per diem allowance of two hundred fifty dollars.  In the event a board member or hearing examiner is scheduled to work for less than three hours a day but actually works for three or more hours that day, the board member or hearing examiner shall receive a per diem allowance of three hundred seventy-five dollars.

                     B.  Members of the board shall pay parking fees as provided for in K.C.C. chapter

3.32 at the rate set for monthly employee and county vehicles.

                     SECTION 2.  This ordinance takes effect on January 1, 2023.