Mar. 13, 2026
Orange County supervisors reject Grand Jury call to rescind pay raise
The board voted 3-1 to keep a 25% salary increase despite a grand jury report criticizing the way the raise was embedded in the county's budget process. Supervisors said their compensation is governed by a state law formulating their pay to the salaries of Superior Court judges, which they argued already serves as an independent benchmark.
Orange County supervisors voted to reject a civil grand jury's recommendation that they rescind a 25% hike in their salary that was approved last year, intensifying a political and legal dispute over the board's compensation decision and the process used to adopt it. The Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 Tuesday, with one abstention, to keep the increase and declined to return the additional pay by the end of the month as recommended by the panel.
The dispute stems from a Dec...
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