KRS 67C.131: Salaries for members of legislative council -- Authorization to hire

staff persons.

(1) The salary of the members of the legislative council of a newly consolidated

local government created by the provisions of KRS 67C.101 to 67C.137 shall

be eighty percent (80%) of that amount that is permitted for county

commissioners on July 14, 2000, as provided by Section 246 of the Kentucky

Constitution. In order to equate the compensation of legislative council

members with the purchasing power of the dollar, the Department for Local

Government shall compute by the second Friday in February of every year the

annual increase or decrease in the consumer price index of the preceding year.

The Department for Local Government shall notify the appropriate governing

bodies charged by law to fix the compensation of the above elected officials of

the annual rate of compensation to which the elected officials are entitled in

accordance with the increase or decrease in the consumer price index. Upon

notification from the Department for Local Government, the appropriate

governing body may set the annual compensation of the above elected officials

at a rate no greater than that stipulated by the Department for Local

Government.

(2) Each legislative council member may hire one (1) full-time staff person. In

addition to that full-time staff person, the two (2) largest political caucuses

within the legislative council may hire staff persons to meet the staffing needs

of those caucuses.