for you. for you to treat us this way. >> and if you don't know who is looking at this, everybody in the nation is looking at this city. and we should be embarrassed. >> we are looking at this city. to do that, we bring in ed mertz, with knx 1070 news radio. ed, good morning. >> good morning. >> i want to figure out how this happened here. a town of 38,000 people, ten miles from downtown los angeles. in which about a quarter of the people there, it's a largely latino population, live underneath the poverty level. are you kidding me? and you have people in this town making this kind of money? how did this happen? almost $800,000 a year for the city manager? >> it's kind of a complicated formula that these people use. many of them bounce around from communities and boards, and accrue experience and years on the job and they apply that toward the calpers state