The Riverside County Board of Supervisors tentatively approved a pair of ordinances which would award double digit pay hikes to 10 county elected officials, including themselves during their Tuesday, May 21 meeting.
The move came about after comparing the pay of the five supervisors, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, District Attorney Chad Hestrin, Clerk-Recorder Peter Aldana, Auditor-Controller Ben Benoit and Treasurer-Tax Collector Matthew Jennings, to the pay of their counterparts in other counties throughout southern California.
Supervisor Kevin Jeffries, who is retiring at the end of the year, was the lone dissenting vote in the 4-1 decision. Jefferies, who is also the most senior member of the board, has consistently refused pay raises for himself since first elected in 2012, m