Let’s look at Leftist accountability and control. They want to regulate and control our lives. But how well do they do at keeping control of the purse strings?
San Francisco is both a city and a county. It has both sheriff and police departments.
Sheriffs deputies run the jails, enforce civil judgments, and provide security for court cases, while the police patrol the city. Police Chief William Scott earns $434,613 that’s $338,482 salary and $96,131 benefits. Four assistant chiefs received between $346,528 and $445,539. There were 195 employees with pay and perks exceeding $300,000 each.
Sheriff Paul Miyamoto made $357,570 in total compensation. Overall, the sheriff paid out $100,000+ in overtime pay to fifty employees. This includes $315,896 in overtime to a senior deputy sheriff with total comp of $574,595. Again the sheriff runs the jails, enforces civil judgments, and provides security for court cases. It’s a little hard to understand needing that much OT… If you put in that number of hours how effective can you be?
The two departments employed 3,775 people. That’s roughly 8.5 out of every ten employees with comp packages that exceeded $100,000. City employees are making a lot of money in San Francisco.
Fire
The Fire Department had two chiefs last year. Outgoing Chief Joanne Hayes-White retired on a $311,560 annual pension and Chief Jeanine Nicholson replaced her in May 2019. Last year, Hayes-White received $386,727 and Nicholson received $442,722 in total compensation. However, cash compensation alone is not the full story. The department maintains a $2 million four-bedroom landmark home as the chief’s residence.
A fire prevention lieutenant made $415,111. That’s more than double their $184,791 base salary. Their overtime was $230,320. Fifteen employees received over $100,000 in overtime pay alone. Only 389 of the 1,559 Fire employees did not bring home a six-figure comp package last year.
San Francisco is a progressive utopia. Nobody seems to care in the least about the taxpayers’ ability to pay. Looking at the Leftist accountability and control in financial matters should give us pause. No thought is being given to the dollars paid versus the value received. Why is it reasonable to spread this contagion nationally? Do we really want to get our leadership from San Francisco?
