Reply #10: CA: SONOMA SUPES OK RAISES FOR POLL WORKERS [View All]

SONOMA SUPES OK RAISES FOR POLL WORKERS
10/03/06 11:30 PDT
SANTA ROSA (BCN)

Sonoma County's Board of Supervisors this morning approved pay increases for the 1,400 workers who staff the county's 350 polling places. The raises are effective Nov. 7.

Inspectors will get a $35 raise to $135 for their day's work and clerks will get a $25 raise to $100. County election officials said polling place workers are on the job 15 to 16 hours on election days.

Facilities that are used as polling places also will be paid an extra $20, increasing their compensation to $60 a day. Seventy-five percent of the county's polling places, schools, churches and public buildings, are used without compensation, election officials said.

The raises will cost an extra $50,000 for a countywide, county-funded election, but the extra cost on Nov. 7 will be reimbursed through the federal Help America Vote Act.

more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jgideon_061003__daily_voting_news__.htm