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Recommendation R7

Recommendation R7

As part of an approach to the mounting debt problem, the County should consider having caps on County executive salaries.

Jury report: Planning for the Future: The Board of Supervisors' Approach to the Growing $220-Million Problem of Unfunded Pension Liabilities · PDF page 24

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Official response

Nevada County Board of Supervisors

Agency says implemented

Claims implementation; cites PEPRA pensionable-pay limits, market studies and executive restructuring.

Read official response · PDF page 13

A cap on earnings used for pension calculations is not a cap on actual executive salaries. Market competitiveness explains compensation policy but leaves the requested executive-salary-cap consideration incompletely mapped.

This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.

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