No wonder CA is broke - city manager forced to resign - salary almost 2x Obama's

BELL, Calif. — Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said Friday.

Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd accepted the resignations of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia and Police Chief Randy Adams.

Rizzo was the highest paid at $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama — for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.

Spaccia makes $376,288 a year and Adams earns $457,000, 50 percent more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.

The three will not receive severance packages, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Rizzo will step down at the end of August and Spaccia will leave at the end of September. Adams will also leave at the end of August, after completing an evaluation of the police department, the Times said.

Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in the city of fewer than 40,000 residents. Census figures from 2008 show 17 percent of the population lives in poverty.

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Yep its **** like this thats going to end up hurting cali and the united states has a whole and the people voted for it.

The people should have more control on what council members are getting paid. To bad we don't.

who gave them those salaries? seems like they quit 'cause people were jealous. :P were they allocating the city's money to themselves? if so, they need to be tried.smc91352

Council members can give themselves raises without telling the people. Its nothing illegal but very ****** up.

Council members can give themselves raises without telling the people. Its nothing illegal but very ****** up.kidsmelly

That's messed up. :(

[QUOTE="smc91352"]who gave them those salaries? seems like they quit 'cause people were jealous. :P were they allocating the city's money to themselves? if so, they need to be tried.kidsmelly

Council members can give themselves raises without telling the people. Its nothing illegal but very ****** up.

Hmmmm. Here sitting members of Parliament have to pass legislation to increase their base salary and benefits, and this is always scrutinised by the media. Local council members, on the other hand, have their pay set out by the State Government. I knew the local member of a nearby area and he got about $15,000 a year. That's quite good for one night a week.