My former colleague at the Orange County Register, Brian Calle, has been looking closely at local police contracts and finding some hilarious pay-increasing and pension-spiking tidbits -- such as a contract item that pays some Costa Mesa cops an extra $5,600 a year to wash their motorcycles. Now he found an item that pays that city's officers an extra 2.5 percent of their base salary to -- get this -- wear a uniform. This special uniform pay enhances their pension benefit. Obviously, as Calle notes, these officers tend to wear uniforms any way. I recall that one retired northern California fire chief was paid extra management pay, as if the job of fire chief isn't already a management job. These kinds of scams don't often happen in the private sector, but it's different with Other People's Money.
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