The voting members of the council shall receive forty dollars ($40) per day per diem for each day spent in actual attendance at the meetings or on the business of the council and shall be reimbursed for necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, except, during the first year of council operations, when members shall serve at their own expense. Nonvoting members shall be reimbursed at the same rate as voting members when their agencies do not pay their expenses. Alternates shall only be paid expenses and per diem for meetings at which they serve as the replacement for the voting member.