Revelations on How Police Salaries, Overtime Pay Tax Oakland’s Budget
Oakland police officer Malcolm Miller’s total pay and benefits was $640,736 last year, including $257,326 in overtime; another policeman, Timothy Dolan, earned $601,135, including $322,071 in overtime.
At a time when Oakland is potentially facing a significant budget shortfall because of the pandemic and community demands to ‘defund’ the police, the cost of just two of the city’s 792 sworn officers raises questions about how city officials allocates the taxpayers’ money.
But they are not alone. Salary information taken from the website “Transparent California,” a nonprofit agency that obtains employee salary data through the California Public Records Act (CPRA), reveals even more.
NBC Bay Area is still waiting on additional records, and some emails were withheld by the district, but here’s what we know so far:
Just before 7:30 am on Jan. 21, an anesthesiologist affiliated with Good Samaritan Hospital named Richard Briones sent an email to LGUSD Superintendent Paul Johnson and Good Samaritan Chief Operating Officer Gary Purushotham. Briones, records show, appears to share a home with LGUSD Communications Coordinator Karen Briones, who is also copied on the email.
“A quick reintroduction to you both as it has been a while since our collaborative work on the Feed our Heroes project,” Briones wrote. “Gary, I shared news surrounding access to the COVID vaccine for the community’s frontline education staff with Paul yesterday evening. I forwarded the link you sent me to him this morning.”
OC Leaders Secretly Approved Over $200 Million in Covid Contracts; Voice of OC is Getting the Public a Peek at Where it Went
Mar. 11, 2021
OC supervisors Chairman Andrew Do (right) speaks with Michelle Steel, the board s former chairwoman, at a 2019 event organized by a PR firm that got $750,000 in secretly-approved county contracts in 2020, including for vaccine promotion. The contracts were not publicly disclosed until Voice of OC filed record requests in early 2021. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
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Orange County officials have secretly approved at least $222 million in taxpayer contracts since last March, when county supervisors set up a behind-the-scenes process for emergency spending without public disclosure of where the money is going, according to records obtained by Voice of OC.
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