City laysoff workers, will rehire 100% contracted labor

[Grunco]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/sheriffs-dept-to-patrol-maywood-while-city-employees-now-face-lay-offs.html

"We will become 100% a contracted city," said Angela Spaccia, Maywood's interim city manager.

At a council meeting Monday night, city leaders said they were forced to dismantle the Police Department and lay off city workers because they lost insurance coverage as a result of excessive police claims filed against the department.

Local activists, who refer to themselves as "A Group for a Better Maywood," announced their intention to recall four of the council members: Felipe Aguirre, Edward Varela, Vice Mayor Veronica Guardado and Mayor Ana Rosa Rizo.

[KBCraig]

They contracted with the neighboring city of Bell.

Bell is a city of 38,000 people, with a below-average per capita income of $24,800, which pays the city administrator almost $800,000 a year, the police chief more than $450,000, and the city council members get almost $100,000 for working part time.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-20/california-official-s-800-000-salary-in-city-of-38-000-triggers-protests.html