Angry public hounds obscenely overpaid city official out of job -- he still gets $1 million annual public pension
Earlier this week, I noted the Los Angeles Times' report on Bell, California which revealed the L.A. suburb has some of the highest paid municipal employees in the country. The Times revealed city manager Robert Rizzo made $787,637 a year, with 12 percent annual pay increases as part of his contract. (Rizzo's last raise was $84,389.76.) Further, Bell's police Chief Randy Adams also made $457,000 a year, and the assistant city manager Angela Spaccia was making $376,288.
The Times is now reporting that all three are resigning after an indignant public descended on a city council meeting:
City Manager Robert Rizzo, Police Chief Randy Adams and Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia will not receive severance packages. 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 decision was announced at midnight to a crowd of angry Bell residents who anxiously had been waiting since the City Council began its meeting at 4:30 p.m. None of the administrators attended the session.
The crowd erupted in applause after the announcement but immediately yelled out questions about what would happen to the council members. Four of the five are paid close to $100,000 annually. When their questions were not answered, they shouted, "Recall!"
But fear not! Though they were fired without severance, Rizzo gets to keep his pension-- which tops out at over a million dollars a year! -- reports KTLA:
Still, Rizzo would be entitled to a state pension of more than $650,000 per year for life, the Times said. That would make him the highest-paid retiree in the state pension system.
