Robert Rizzo - Looks like he spent his money on twinkies, by the way, this is his recent DUI party, with all that free money it's chicks and beer for everyone while the peasants starve ..
Posted on 07/23/2010 7:07:49 AM PDT by Scythian
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.
Rizzo would be entitled to a state pension of more than $650,000 a year for life, according to calculations made by the Times. That would make Rizzo, 56, the highest-paid retiree in the state pension system.
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SOMEONE had to budget and approve this salary- FIRE THEM TOO
They have nothing to lose, now they just get a pension for that amount. Sick.
I think the jobless should camp out on these folks front lawns and demand help ...
Well, that’s what they’d have to pay me to live and work in Bell...
How did anyone not know how much they were making?
Most newspapers here in MA publish public employee payrolls yearly
Bet yer ass there was an agreement to the effect no further actions would be taken against these creeps.
Bet yer ass there was an agreement to the effect no further actions would be taken against these creeps.
If you're making nearly $800,000 per year, you can afford to spread a little hush money around the media.
“Well, that’s what they’d have to pay me to live and work in Bell...”
Live there? No way. The CAO lives in Huntington Beach.
400 people in a town of 37,000 actually voted and the vote was in favor.
As a charter city, Bell is exempt from salary caps that apply to most jurisidictions in CA.
The contract that these three have is that if they are fired, the city has to buy out their contracts and that if they resign, they will be entitled to their pensions.
They resigned because the city did not have enough cash up front to fire them and spend millions to buy out their contracts.
Were I in charge, I would have fired them and then declared municipal bankruptcy and ignore their pensions.
I saw this in the morning paper and I about gagged on my coffee when I saw how much they were paying these three people. The alarming part is that this is going on all over the Country, and is exactly why so many small towns are facing insolvency.
Our City is shutting down a fire station, deactivating the apparatus there and laying off the crews, and will be laying off 8-10 police officers by the end of the year, because the City has worked itself into a $10 Million budget hole and there is no other way out.
But of course we still have a City Manager who makes just under $180,000 base salary, and an Assistant City Manager who makes just under $170,000 base salary. Our City Council Critters are all taking home $20,000 a year too. Nothing we can do about any of it except complain, and you only get 3 minutes on Monday night after all other Council business is done, where they all sit like Easter Island statues, nod politely when you are done, and then move on...
Same thing happening in the little town of Tonopah, NV. You get a closed group voting each other pay raises and this is what you get. Nye county (Tonopah) has the highest state retirements, higher than Washoe county (Reno) and Clark county (Las Vegas).
How come their political affiliation doesn’t appear in the article? I am confused. These must be republicans, right?/sarcasm
I have always wondered who owns those big houses on the golf course.
Doesn’t look like he’s taking it well.
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-hbi-0729-bell-20100729,0,2362437.story
What are the other salaries being paid, what is the line of authority which initiated and approved them, why were these public payments not public knowledge, etc.???
The entire government finances and operations need a thorough audit by out of town auditors with experience in uncovering corruption.
Any taxpayer monies going into the city treasury must be halted until the audit is completed, publicized and corrective actions in place.
Bell was a dump in the 80s.
IMO, they should ALL be sued for misuse of tax $$$. Is it called malfeasance?
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