The State of Kookfornia is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and so Governor Conan the Barbarian wants to reduce the pay of state employees to that of the federal minimum wage. Many of Kookfornia’s cities are also on the verge of bankruptcy.
Bell, 10 miles south of Los Angeles, is a city of 38,000 that has a largely Latino population with a per-capita income of $24,800 in 2008. More than a quarter of its residents live below the poverty level. So how does Bell pay its top officials? Take a look at these annual salaries:
_Chief Administrative Officer (City Manager): $787,637
_Chief of Police: $457,000
_Assistant City Manager: $376,288
The police chief was hired just last year to lead a department of fewer than 50 officers. With his salary, he was being paid 50 percent more than the police chief of Los Angeles who earns an annual salary of $307,000 while leading a department of close to 13,000 officers.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that all of those three officials worked only PART-TIME.
On Thursday night, after the Los Angeles Times published those outrageous salaries, angry residents stormed the city council meeting and got the three officials fired. Now they are out to get rid of the mayor and the other four city council members as well.
Four of Bell’s five part-time council members, including the mayor, made sure they were paid handsomely by taking in almost $100,000 annually, mostly by serving on city-affiliated boards and commissions to which they had appointed themselves.
And so it goes in Kookfornia.
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