That is really messed up. Here is the original LA Times article on it: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bell-salary-20100715,0,1323511,print.story
Fascinating thing, to me, is that the officials defend the salaries. Some people really have no shame. Judah On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've seen this story floating around on a couple of sites. I thought I > would share it. > > The town of Bell CA has a population of roughly 38,000 people. It is > located approximately 10 miles from down-town LA. According to the 2000 > census, 90% of the population is of Hispanic background. Over 50% of the > population is foreign born. The per capita income is half the average of > the US. > > Recently, the LA Times investigated the town pay structure for officials. > > The interesting things that were found follow: > > > The police chief Randy Adams makes $457,000 per year, which is 50% more than > Charlie Beck, the police chief of Los Angeles, makes. > The town's Chief Administrative Office, Robert Rizzo, makes $787,637 per > year. > The town's Assistant City Manager, Angela Spaccia, makes $376,288 per year, > which is more than most city managers in other CA towns. > The city council members each make $100,000 per year. Cities of similar > size pay an average of $4,800 per year to their council members. > > > As these numbers have been made public, the citizens of Bell have become > quite testy. They are calling for resignation and prosecutions. I think > they might be on to something. I mean, it's not like there is a recession > in CA or that there are better uses for tax dollars. Right? > > > > J > > - > > The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are > willing to work and give to those who would not. I think myself that we have > more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on > the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
