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Bell City Administrators Resign

Written by KEYT Producer

Story Created: Jul 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM PST

Story Updated: Jul 24, 2010 at 8:16 AM PST

BELL, Calif. (AP) - Three top administrators whose huge salaries
sparked outrage in the Los Angeles County city of Bell have
resigned.

Council members emerged from a more than six-hour meeting early
Friday and announced that they had accepted the resignations of
Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager
Angela Spaccia and Police Chief Randy Adams.

Combined, the officials' salaries totaled more than $1.6
million. Rizzo was the highest paid at more than $787,000 a year.

Revelations about the pay sparked anger in the city of fewer
than 40,000 residents. Census figures from 2008 show 17 percent of
the population lives in poverty.

Residents have staged protests demanding the firings and started
a recall campaign against some council members.


(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia used to work in Ventura, and Police Chief Randy Adams used to be the Chief of Police in Simi Valley.
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