Bell Isn't Only California City That Should Re|Examine Pensions ...

Bell Isn't Only California City That Should Re-Examine Pensions ...

The City of Bell has become the poster child for bad government. Exorbitant salaries, lavish pension benefits, a looming default on $35 ...

Tax and Budget Policy Archives - Page 37 of 63 - Reason Foundation

Tax and Budget Policy · Lessons from the Bell, California Fiasco · Bell Isn't Only California City That Should Re-Examine Pensions, Salaries · Where Did the Money ...

Local city managers disgusted over Bell pay – Whittier Daily News

According to a fellow at the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College, the salary figures for city managers in this region should be considered normal.

Lawmakers water down pension bill, play up Bell scandal - The ...

But legislators want you to know that they're outraged about the excessive salaries collected by officials in the Southern California city of Bell — and they've ...

How the Road to Bell Was Paved | City Journal

Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesToo little, too late: only in July, after Bell's salary scandal erupted, did citizens shake off their historical apathy.

Los Angeles Times - The Pulitzer Prizes

For its exposure of corruption in the small California city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in ...

Bell pensions and municipal corruption: what are the options ... - LAist

... pensions for some officials could reach $600000 a year. But such outrageous salaries for public employees aren't illegal in California. The key to reforming ...

Special Report: How a vicious circle of self-interest sank a California ...

City workers took advantage of compensation rules, common among public employees in California, that made retirement deals even better. Key to ...

Once bankrupt, Vallejo still can't afford its pricey pensions - Business

So far, no bankrupt California city has ever challenged CalPERS over pension cuts. CalPERS did not respond to a request for comment. Vallejo's ...

Jerry Brown touted his pension reforms as a game-changer. But they ...

Steep cuts in state spending during the Great Recession, along with a highly publicized scandal in Bell, Calif., where city leaders arranged ...

From well-funded pensions to basket case, San Francisco's voters ...

The reason dates back more than a century, to a city charter that requires voters to approve any increases in pension payments for San ...

Bell: The Latest 'Suburb of Extraction' - CP&DR

So democracy only works, even in small cities ... California Public Employees Retirement System works. ... city and school district will appeal to the California ...

Your Tax Dollars and Someone Else's Retirement Benefits - LAist

Talking about pensions isn't exactly sexy, but when you get angry about potholes not getting fixed, lack of public transit and other ...

Ranks of high-priced public pensioners explode in California

But we argue that the growth of the $100K club in the gargantuan California Public Employees Retirement System — the nation's largest — is a ...

Bell scandal fuels push for CA pension reform | ABC7 Los Angeles

"The officials of the city of Bell were actually in the CalPERS system prior to that, so they would not be in effect under that law," said ...

Court pension decision weakens 'California rule' - Calpensions

City of Oakland held that a reduction in pensions for current workers from 2/3 to 1/2 of final salary w/o offset, was a reasonable reduction.

City of Bell – Reformed and Reborn

We still have a lot of hard work to do… but we are proud of the City we're becoming. When I started in June 2012 as the first full-time permanent City Manager ...

The City of Bell and the California Pension Crisis | Which Way, L.A.?

Outrageous salaries paid to former officials have brought attention not just to the City of Bell, but to neighboring cities and to the way ...

As public pension costs soar, some Southern California agencies ...

“California cities are facing multiple pressures on their budgets, and so projections of increased pension obligations are certainly unwelcome ...

The everything Bell thread - Police Forums & Law Enforcement ...

Other cities to pay lavish Bell, Calif., pensions. BELL, Calif. (AP) - Cities across Southern California will ... Turns out basic police work isn't so hard, you ...