Senate File 2016 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  KIBBIE


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to an increase in per diem paid to trustees of
  2    sanitary districts.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5150XS 81
  5 eg/sh/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 358.12, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The trustees elected as provided in section 358.9
  1  4 constitute a board of trustees for the district by which they
  1  5 are elected.  The board of trustees is the corporate authority
  1  6 of the sanitary district and shall manage and control the
  1  7 affairs and property of the district.  A majority of the board
  1  8 of trustees shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number
  1  9 may adjourn from day to day.  The board of trustees shall
  1 10 elect a president, a clerk, and a treasurer from its
  1 11 membership and may employ employees as necessary, who shall
  1 12 hold their employment during the pleasure of the board.  The
  1 13 board shall prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of
  1 14 all employees of the sanitary district and the amount of bond
  1 15 to be filed by the treasurer of the district and by any
  1 16 employee for whom the board may require bond.  The members of
  1 17 the board of trustees shall receive a per diem of forty one
  1 18 hundred dollars for attendance at a meeting of the board or
  1 19 while otherwise engaged in official duties, but the total per
  1 20 diem for each member shall not exceed two thousand four
  1 21 hundred dollars for a fiscal year.  However, the board of
  1 22 trustees, by resolution, may establish for its members a lower
  1 23 rate of pay than is fixed by this section.  The members of the
  1 24 board shall also be reimbursed for their travel and other
  1 25 necessary expenses incurred in performing their official
  1 26 duties.  Travel expenses are reimbursable at the rate
  1 27 specified in section 70A.9.
  1 28                           EXPLANATION
  1 29    This bill increases the amount of per diem, from $40 to
  1 30 $100, that a trustee of a sanitary district may receive for
  1 31 attending a board of trustees meeting or for being otherwise
  1 32 engaged in trustee duties.  The board of trustee may establish
  1 33 by resolution a lower per diem amount.  The $2,400 limit on
  1 34 total per diem for each trustee per fiscal year still applies.
  1 35 LSB 5150XS 81
  2  1 eg:rj/sh/8