Fresno Unified School District trustees will receive a pay raise starting in February that will double the amount of their current stipends.
The Board of Trustees voted, 6-1, to increase their monthly stipend from $2,111 to $4,500, or $54,000 annually, starting Feb. 1.
The raises were made possible after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1390 in October. The new law raised California’s limits on compensation for school board members for the first time in more than 40 years, and leaves it up to local school boards to decide whether to raise pay…