will be something we ll have to take on. we re a charter city. we have the right and option to do this. bill: and have you spoken to other mayors who are leading towns in a similar way? i think all of them are from orange county, are they not? actually, no. i ve spoke to mayors up and down the state. i have also talked with our county supervisor michelle steele. yeah, i mean there s a tremendous amount of cities and counties out there that want to do this that you know, they re waiting to see kind of how this is going to go with us. i appreciate the opportunity to reach out to these mayors and city council members and ask them to join in. bill: it s a fascinating development. i hope you come back. we ll reach out to some other mayors and get their viewpoint. you expect sacramento to come back at you, that s what you re saying today? i would hope that they would let us maintain our local control. but the way california has been, i ve been on city council for 12
give us the grounds for your decision. why did you do it? well, because we can. as a charter city in california, we have the ability to interpret law and to implement them in our city. we just think the state was completely off on this. we think this issue is something maintained and managed by the u.s. government and we decide to enable ourselves bill: what do you what are you concerned about? lay that out for us. i guess first of all, when they passed the sanctuary law, this law conflicts directly with my oath of office as a mayor, city council member and u.s. navy veteran to support and defend the constitution. i think it s a huge overreach by the state. if were our city, we need to make sure we do the right thing. we ll take our direction on immigration, specifically around the sanctuary issue with the u.s. government. bill: the law basically says if the feds want to have contact with illegals in your community,
overreach that i m bringing forward with my mayor pro tem eric peterson, a directive to our city attorney to look at what are the avenues that we can explore to exempt ourselves from sb54. we want to maintain local control since huntington beach is a charter city, we may have specific exemptions that ashow w us to move forward. we re hope thafl the city taryn can give us that direction. what are the consequences of the sanctuary cities in your city? the biggest consequence for me is the constitutional overreach and lack of local control if we dive deep into the effects of it, there are some exemptions in sb54 that precludes us from pursuing the prosecution of those that may have committed what would be classified as felonies that are now
who were also getting huge paychecks. in the city of vernon, a legal consultant made $1.5 million last year and the city manager made 785,000. the attorney general has launched an investigation in vernon. up north in the city of san ramon, the city manager there is making 359,000, and a hospital administrator in fremont paid 876,000 in 2008. but getting paid a lot isn t against the law. in fact, the former police chief in bell, randy adams, who mads 450,000 wasn t arrested along with the others because, prosecutors say, he didn t try to hide his salary. it s not illegal in the state of california, especially in a charter city for people to get paid ridiculous sums of money, but if you contract or set it up so you receive that in secret or without following the appropriate process, that s the crime.
bureau in burbank. describe the case against the eight city leaders. contessa, they re accused of looting the city treasury to the tune of $5.5 million appropriating the money for their own use without taxpayers permission. it revolves around the high salaries paid to former city manager, robert rizzo and seven others. rizzo apparently had a compensation package that totalled $1.5 million. the way they did this was about five years ago bell was made a charter city which gave the city council sweeping powers to approve high salaries for themselves without taxpayer approval, only about 400 people voted in that election. bell is a very low income blue collar city with a lot of immigrants, many of whom do not speak english, many of whom are not even eligible to vote so low voter participation in civic affairs, was one of the reasons that apparently this was all able to happen. now, of course, after the los