january of 2006, the city fathers, this city council, took a measure to the voters to become a charter city, to essentially exempt themselves from broad state laws, so they, i think, knew this was coming and found a way to get around it. we are looking at it. we ll see if we can do anything in sacramento, but more than likely what will have to take place is that the voters themselves amend the charter in the city of bell to add those protects for themselves. so what needs to be done is that voters have to step up and demand that change. how quickly can that happen, though? well, they have to get 10% of the significants of the voters in the city, and then take the measure to an election. if they are successful getting the significants, they take it to an election in november of this year, march of next year, and try to pass it in that way.
basta, acronym for bell association to stop the abuse. it also by the way translates in spanish to enough. they passed out 12,000 different flyers this weekend trying to get residents to this meeting tonight. we all know the outrage began when the salaries of the city leaders were posted. we re talking about outrageous sallies, the city manager, robert rizzo was making seven # $7000, the assistanting is, angra sp spassia, making $366,000, and randy adams, $457,000, all three of those who no longer work for the city still have pensions close to their salaries. now, most cities in california fall under state guidelines when it comes to city salaries but bell is a charter city because a couple of years ago, they voted, less than 400 people, by the way, showed up for the vote, they voted towick a become a charter city which no longer means they