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Councilman Norris expressed concern with respect to payment of the $ 50 honorarium per meeting , in view of numerous other meetings attended by Council Members , Commissioners , etc . , without remuneration . Councilman Rhodes con - curred and stated he would oppose the honorarium . Vice -Mayor Henderson re - called that Council previously did strongly oppose efforts to pay themselves for attendance at meetings , that she shared the concerns expressed and felt that it was counter -productive technique to attempt to attract attendance by offering payment . During further discussion , Assistant City Manager noted that members need not accept the honorarium . Vice -Mayor Henderson expressed support for participation , but not for acceptance of payment for attendance , and it was her understanding the City had the right to approve the agreement , excluding the proposed amendments . She also noted that she did not recall this being considered during the budget meetings . Fire Chief indicated City ' s share was approximately $3 , 600 . Councilman Weymouth indicated that he assumed the $3 , 600 included the honorarium to Redwood City ' s member , and that Council could approve the amendments and refuse to include the $600 allocated as honorarium for City ' s representative . In discussion of the budget , Fire Chief advised that Council approved the Civil Defense and Disaster Organization budget when it approved the Fire Department ' s budget . In continued discussion , Councilman Leipzig stated that she would like to have more information about the organization . Councilman Rhodes also felt that more data was needed . Assistant City Manager advised that the organization had been in existence for quite some time and all cities belonged to it . Also that the money went for payment of telephone lines , microwave , etc . Councilman Henderson ex - pressed concern that she had not seen a copy of the agreement , and suggested Council might desire to hold the item until they could review the agreement . City Attorney advised that the agreement was Statewide , which becomes a joint powers agreement exercised jointly with county and city signatories . The agreement itself was a standard form prepared by the County . Vice -Mayor Henderson again stated that the agreement had not been made available to Council and felt that it would be desirable to have the opportunity to re - view it . Councilman Weymouth indicated he was prepared to approve the agreement but to take exception to the honorarium provision , and thereby further reduce the City ' s contribution by $ 600 per annum in the budget . City Attorney commented that he was not sure of the legal significance of taking action to line through the provision under J , paragraph 6 , and suggested that perhaps at the next Civil Defense and Disaster Organization meeting it might be appropriate for that Board to make a determination as a policy matter . In response to question by Councilman Weymouth , City Controller stated that to the best of his knowledge , the City had not paid the Organization for this year , since this normally would not be done until there is a signed agreement . 8/13 /73 Reg . Mtg .