Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in California. It is the county seat of Alameda County. Based on 2006 statistical data, Oakland is the 44th largest city in the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the population was 401,489 in 2007. [1][edit] Mayor Dellums
Ron Dellums is the current mayor of Oakland. A public records request to the mayoral office for his calendar reveals that Mayor Dellums only schedules himself to work about 25 hours per week. [2]
[edit] Personell
The city employes 25 annuitants, including two department heads. Vitale Troyan currently serves as the city's acting director of Public Works, and Interim Fire Chief Gerald Simon who retired in 2008, but is working for the fire department again. Simon is currently collecting two paychecks for his work, one being his pension, the total coming to over $300,000.[3] It is more then Simon collected when he worked full-time, now he collects this money for working 20 hours a week.
[edit] Lobbying
- Main article: California taxpayer-funded lobbying
For 2007 and 2008, Oakland spent $250,000 on lobbying. [4]
[edit] References
- ↑ United States Census Bureau
- ↑ Oakland's Part-Time Mayor, East Bay Express, December 24, 2008
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, Retire-rehire practice is double-dipping, Oct. 1, 2010
- ↑ State-Level Lobbying and Taxpayers: How Much Do We Really Know?, Pacific Research Institute
