California Will Post City Officials' Salaries After Bell Scandal

When all is said and done, nothing will come of this. Go ahead and check next November and see what comes of it. There will be a bunch of rhetoric from a handful of politicians and city leaders and then quietly it will all fade away.City Managers and their staff have figured out countless ways to enhance pay packages, retirement, other compensations. As one City does it others follow suit and pat each other on the back for what a great job they perform. Citizens in California have been duped for so long, I would hope they would wake up and take the same action that the citizens of Bell. Good luck

The public sector in the U.S. has been out of control for over 10 years. Pensions of 50%-75% of the average of the last year worked is why we are broke. Public sector employees should pay fully for their pension programs whether they be a defined benefit plan or a simple 401(k).

The public sector should also pay for at least 50%-70% of their health care costs. The general public can no longer support the public sector. The public sector gravy train is now off the track.

By definition, a public sector employee is any person paid with taxpayers money.
Many public sector employees earn a retirement check after 20-25 years of service. After they retire, they go back out into the workforce and secure another full paid job.

The gig must end. We can no longer fund the crazy compensation and benefit packages.

if the investigation shows that the salaries were inflated illegally, then the starting salaries that were in effect at the time of any illegal action by the city council while take precident and the retirement benefits will be figured on that basis. but i'll bet when everything is looked at there will be more than the voters will like with salaries that are not only inflated but illegal.

The biggest problem for CA started waaaay back when Gray Davis (memba him?) left office. He signed into law a bill that gave state employees the ability to retire at full salary after only 10 years. That was when we saw the writing on the wall & knew the taxes for this state were going to eventually be intolerable. For every state job, you essentially now can have 2-4 people being paid. Why work till 65 when you can get full pay after 10 years? So every 10 years a worker can retire & another can take his place & so on. So a job that pays 100k can now cost you 400k since all 4 employees will be paid. But Davis was on his way out & the Senate passed it. Go CA!

I'd be more impressed to learn the income of all wealthy Americans, as well as how much they paid in state & federal taxes! How can the LA Dodgers owner make more than $100 Million over the past 5 years & pay no state or federal taxes? We wouldn't even know this if his wife hadn't included it in her divorce filings.

Just one simple sentence: "Get those crooks and make them pay back every dime they stole!"

After the outrageous salaries are displayed, then list the ridicuous pensions being received for time on the job (notice, I did not say........ work), not only for California, but for all states. I live in Connecticut and already know how the taxpayers are being ripped off here.

No wonder so many states are saying they’re going bankrupt. And they have the audacity to ask the Federal Government for a bail out?

state salaries also, most peopl dom't hasve any idea what their reps make.

They all should be posted in every state. No Govt. employee should be making this kind of money. They want us to dig the states out of debt yet all the while drawing hugh salaries. VOTE THEM OUT! VOTE THEM OUT>>>>>>>