Daily Archives: July 21, 2010

iePolitics: “Even ‘they’ can’t be that stupid”

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Every time we here at iePolitics have declared that San Bernardino County officials have reached the pinnacle of stupidity and arrogance, we are proven wrong.  Although the events of the past 24 hours are not surprising, they are appalling.

For weeks now there has been behind-the-scenes chatter about what exactly was going to be done to pull off the transfer of San Bernardino County Second District Chief of Staff Matt Brown to the Auditor-Controller/Recorder/Tax Collector office.  Many of us figured there would be wrangling to send Brown to the Assessor’s Office next year when the Recorder’s function is transferred to that department.  The question was how.

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VVDP: Ringing Bell’s taxpayers

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July 20, 2010 10:39 AM

Victor Valley residents who’ve been in the area for a couple of decades or so might remember the name Robert Rizzo. Rizzo resigned as Hesperia’s city manager back in 1993 to accept a similar position in Bell, a community of 37,000 located about 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Rizzo was being paid about $78,000 a year when he left for Bell, where he’s now the city’s chief administrative officer. His pay? Hold your breath. He now is paid $787,637 a year. Bell also pays its police chief a startling $457,000 a year, and according to a story last week in the Los Angeles Times, several of the city’s council members are paid at least $100,000 a year.

Rizzo, who achieved nothing notable when he managed the City of Hesperia, apparently sees nothing wrong with his pay, which is more than four times what any city manager in the High Desert is paid, more than double what the President of the United States is paid, and twice as much as Los Angeles’s police chief.

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