I'd be willing to bet that most of the Commissioners would forego that $100 as it really constitutes a token payment for their services.

FYI the length of appointments is to allow for a more "gentle" turnover of Commissioners and a much higher continuity (retention of corporate knowledge) than if they were all to be, say, 2 year terms.

And if you think it is too political at the Commission level you obviously are too young to have been exposed to the prior knee jerk legislative mismanagement scheme.