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El Segundo Police Officer Applicant Requirements and Compensation
Entry Level Police Officer Qualifications
Entry level police officer qualifications are fairly minimal, and basically amount to graduating high school or having a G.E.D. equivalent document, having a valid automobile driver’s license, being in reasonably good physical condition, and having correctable vision. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or even an assistant to a rocket scientist to get a job as a police officer with incredibly lucrative compensation from two to five times that of a highly skilled and talented professional with decades of experience and one or more advanced degrees in a difficult technical field from a competitive big-name university.
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Entry level police officer compensation is quite generous. Continue reading
A Victory for El Segundo Residents and Residential Property Owners (House or Two Units)
by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org
January 19, 2011
Congratulations! We won again! Thank you for sending in your Proposition 218 Trash Fee Protest Ballots before the deadline. A total of 1,850 unverified protest ballots were sent to City Hall, and only a total of 1,439 verified protest ballots were needed to defeat the new residential trash collection fee. The City Council voted 3-2 at its January 18, 2011 meeting, to accept the unverified protest ballots as sufficient without having the City Clerk’s staff spend the time to open all the envelopes, verify that the ballots were properly completed and signed, and count the valid ones that are not duplicates from owners and tenants of the same property.
City Council member Don Brann made the motion to accept the unverified protest ballots as sufficient. Mayor Eric Busch tried to ignore the motion and said that the City Clerk would come back to the City Council with the results after the protest ballots were verified and counted. Council member Don Brann caught this apparent maneuver to avoid a vote and move on to the next agenda item, and he stated that he made a motion. Council member Carl Jacobson seconded the motion for discussion. After brief discussion, Council member Don Brann asked for a vote. Mayor Eric Busch and Mayor Pro Tem Bill Fisher voted “NO”, and Council members Don Brann, Carl Jacobson, and Suzanne Fuentes voted “Yes” on the motion.
This vote by mail election used a strange system where properties for which no Protest Ballot is completed, signed, and returned before the deadline COUNT AS YES VOTES, and Protest Ballots from both the owner and tenant(s) of the same property COUNT AS ONLY ONE NO VOTE.
The first year of the trash fee would have cost residents an estimated $560,700, which is less than the estimated $596,657 total compensation paid to former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings in 2009 from all sources – including his city contract and pension income while working for the city after his retirement. This is an enormous amount of compensation for any city, but especially for the City of El Segundo, California, which has about 5.5 square miles and about 16,000 or 17,000 population. … Continue reading
Everyone in El Segundo must defeat the greatest threat facing our city – the firefighters union initiative
All El Segundo residents and business owners must work even harder to defeat the greatest threat facing our city and our safety – the firefighters union initiative. If their union initiative passes, we will permanently lose our Paramedic Transport Service, and depend on out-of-town ambulances with increased hospital transport times and fees. This is dangerous for everybody who lives, works, or does business in El Segundo, but it is especially dangerous for the elderly in our city. Almost all of the fire department calls are paramedic calls. El Segundo has few fire, and zero, one, or two major structure fires (with $100,000 in damage or more) per year.
The El Segundo City Council will decide at its February 15, 2011 meeting which election date the very dangerous firefighters union initiative will appear on the ballot for El Segundo voters. Continue reading
1970-1972 Firefighter and Police Union City Council Campaigns
Former Mayors Reflect on Past Challenges
October 28, 2010
By Brian Simon
Mayor Gordon Stephens (1970-1972): Stephens sees a parallel between the current contentious labor talks between the City Council and local bargaining units and what he described as “difficulties negotiating with our safety employees” during his tenure. “They went door to door to gain sympathetic supporters,” he remembers, noting that attendance at the hearing was so large as to cause the meeting to move its location to the high school auditorium. “The council’s initial position was that after a survey of other cities’ pay and benefits, we offered the midpoint of the survey, realizing El Segundo did not have as much hazardous activity as any of the surveyed cities,” Stephens said. … Continue reading
A Stink in El Segundo Over Cadillac Salaries by Paul Teetor – LA Weekly
A Stink in El Segundo Over Cadillac Salaries
Cops earn $175,000, firefighters $210,000, in a town with few criminals or fires
By Paul Teetor
published: October 14, 2010
The debate over skyrocketing government-worker salaries got nasty in El Segundo when a homeowner published the six-figure salaries flowing to the small town’s cops and firefighters on his Gundo Blogger website — only to have a police captain track him down by phone at his UCLA job and chew him out.
The uneasy homeowner, David Burns, tells L.A. Weekly that Capt. Robert Turnbull “called me from his office to complain about my blog. … He insisted on talking about it right now. I finally had to hang up on him.”
Burns then sent Turnbull an e-mail explaining his policy of separating his blog from his job as manager of emergency preparedness at UCLA.
In a response that would have unnerved many citizens, the high-ranking cop e-mailed Burns back: “I will continue to call you at work whenever I want, as you may do the same for me, since our numbers are publicly listed.”
Turnbull vehemently objected to Burns claiming on his blog that the captain’s total pay is $302,000, insisting it should be “only” $225,000 — the amount the city defines as Turnbull’s “total earnings.”
But as Burns explains, he included “the hidden costs. [Turnbull] was trying to exclude all the extra money and special benefits beyond his base salary, but that all comes from the taxpayer’s pocket.”
Either way, it’s a staggering sum to pay a police captain in a tiny city of 16,000 residents, with zero murders in 2009, according to FBI data — and only 36 violent crimes. By contrast, not counting benefits, the Los Angeles Police Department pays its captains an average of $168,000. … Continue reading
An Introduction to El Segundo’s Fiscal Problems: The firefighter and police unions are the primary cause
by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org
August 25, 2010
(Updated March 15, 2012 – corrected police union raises from 15 percent to 15 to 23 percent.)
The City of El Segundo, California is at risk of losing its City Fire Department and eventually its City Police Department as a result of greatly excessive and unsustainable salaries, benefits, and pensions for its public employees, especially its fire and police union members. The fire and police unions obtained their excessive and unsustainable labor contracts from mayors and City Council members who received thousands of dollars of their campaign support.
The fire and police union members are the primary cause of El Segundo’s financial problems, yet they refuse to take reasonable and necessary pay cuts of at least 20 to 25 percent. These cuts are necessary for the firefighters and police unions to stop doing harm to the city, its residents, and its businesses. And these cuts are reasonable given the excessive firefighter and police pay, benefits, and pensions, and given their excessive raises during the current recession. The police union members received 15 to 23 percent increases and the firefighters union members received an 11.25 percent increase during the recession that they never should have received.
The firefighters’ and police officers’ unions are only considering a small 5 percent reduction in the scheduled pay increases provided by their current union contract. Instead of reasonable and necessary pay cuts to stop doing harm to the city, they demand that the city increase business taxes, create new fees for residents, eliminate and reduce city services, and contract with Los Angeles County for a reduced level of fire and paramedic services, including a loss of paramedic transport services. This takeover of the El Segundo city fire department by the county would protect the firefighter union members’ jobs, pay, and benefits.
The firefighters and police unions demand that all city employees take equal pay cuts. This is extremely unfair to the other city employees, who are paid less than one-fourth to one-half what the firefighters and police are paid, and who, unlike the firefighters and police union members, are not the primary cause of the city’s financial problems.
The El Segundo Firefighters Association (a fancy name for the firefighters labor union) reminds its members, on its official web site, “Remember, the Local 3682 Board of Directors, work to represent the collective interest of our general membership.”
Thus, the firefighters union admits what we already know, that it does not represent the interests of the residents and businesses in El Segundo when it endorses political candidates at election time, advocates public policy, and sponsors a voter initiative to force our city to lose our city fire department and paramedic transport services, and have to contract with Los Angeles County for inferior fire and paramedic services for a minimum of ten years under state law. … Continue reading
Eye-Popping El Segundo 2009 Police Compensation Data
SWORN POLICE OFFICERS
Generally, El Segundo sworn police officers, from lowest level Police Officer up to Police Captain, are by far the highest paid city employees except for sworn firefighters. Police Chief David Cummings was by far the highest paid city employee in calendar year 2009. … Continue reading
Eye-Popping El Segundo 2009 City Employee Compensation Data Now Available
PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES
Sworn firefighters, from the lowest level Firefighter up to the Fire Chief, and sworn police officers, from the lowest level Police Officer up to the Police Chief, are by far the highest paid city employees, with the best pay, benefits, and pensions. Generally, the firefighters earn somewhat more than the police officers.
Firefighters can retire at age 55 and police officers can retire at age 50 with up to 90% of their single highest (spiked) year of pay as their annual pension (3% per year of service). Retired firefighters and police officers live just as long as everyone else, and upon death, the surviving spouses assume the full pension as their own. Therefore, many or most of the firefighter and police pensions will be paid out for more years than the employee worked. Also, the pensions include free medical insurance for the employee and one dependent for life.
If the employee claims a disability upon retirement, or even up to five years after retirement, whether real or not, and whether caused on the job or not, half the pension income is tax-free. Many common health ailments that are caused by heredity or poor health habits are presumed to be job related under laws lobbied for by the firefighter and police unions. Continue reading
Highest paid El Segundo City Employee in 2009
by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org
August 17, 2010
SWORN POLICE OFFICERS
Generally, El Segundo sworn police officers, from lowest level Police Officer up to Police Captain, are by far the highest paid city employees except for sworn firefighters. Police Chief David Cummings was by far the highest paid city employee in calendar year 2009.
Highest Paid El Segundo City Employee in Calendar Year 2009
Former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings, who retired in 2009 with about eleven weeks left in the year, had total 2009 compensation of about $596,657, including his city contract and CalPERS pension income while he continued working as the El Segundo Police Chief after his retirement. Cummings’ post-retirement City employment contract acknowledged that he would be receiving his $210,000 per year CalPERS pension income while he continued working as the City’s police chief after his retirement.
Below are two tables, one showing how former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings was paid a total of at least $596,657 in 2009, and the second showing how Cummings’ salary, vacation and sick leave payout, and pension were all spiked by the 23% raise he was given about a year before his retirement. Following these two tables is a list of links to related documents.
The following is an in-line HTML table containing the formatted spreadsheet data of former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings’ calendar year 2009 total compensation and pension income.
Note: This Public Records Act request data was provided by the City of El Segundo, California on December 15, 2010 in response to a PRA request made by Michael D. Robbins on December 5, 2010. It is provided here as a courtesy of Michael D. Robbins and the Public Safety Project, P.O. Box 2193, El Segundo, CA 90245, PublicSafetyProject.org. The estimated (calculated) data and additional data annotations were provided by Michael D. Robbins.
| David Cummings – El Segundo, California Police Chief Paid in Calendar Year 2009 |
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| Pay and Income for the first 41 weeks (289 days) of 2009 (1/1/09-10/16/09): |
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| Regular Earnings | 225,627 |
| Special Compensation (Uniform Allowance) | 480 |
| Regular Earnings + Special Comp | 226,107 |
| Leave Payout (Vacation and Sick Leave Payout) | 199,668 |
| Total Earnings | 425,775 |
| CalPERS Pension – Employer Contribution – Paid by the Employer (City) | 48,894 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp – Paid by the Employer (City) | 21.6% |
| CalPERS Pension – Employee Contribution – Paid by the Employer (City) | 16,755 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp – Paid by the Employer (City) | 7.4% |
| CalPERS Pension – Employee Contribution – Paid by the Employee | 0 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp – Paid by the Employee | 0.0% |
| CalPERS Pension – Employee Contribution – Total Amount Paid | 16,755 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp | 7.4% |
| TOTAL CALPERS PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS PAID BY THE EMPLOYER (CITY) | 65,649 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp – Total Paid by the Employer (City) | 29.0% |
| NOTE: CalPERS pension contributions were made for the period 1/1/09 – 10/16/09 (41 weeks) | |
| 401(a) Deferred Compensation Plan | |
| 401(a) Deferred Compensation Plan – Amount Paid by Employer (City) | 11,592 |
| 401(a) Deferred Compensation Plan – Amount Paid by the Employee | 0 |
| 401(a) Deferred Compensation Plan – Total Amount Paid | 11,592 |
| Annual Regular Earnings + Special Comp for period 9/27/08 – 9/25/09 | 231,839 |
| Percentage of Regular Earnings + Special Comp | 5.0% |
| Total Insurance Benefits Paid by the Employer (City) | |
| A D & D | 17 |
| Dental | 853 |
| Life Insurance | 154 |
| Long Term Disability | 692 |
| Executive Long Term Disability | 1,031 |
| Vision | 168 |
| TOTAL | 2,915 |
| Post-Employment Health Insurance for 11/09 & 12/09 | 2,302 |
| 2009 TOTAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION | 508,233 |
| Pay and Income for the last 11 weeks (76 days) of 2009 (10/17/09 – 12/31/09): | |
| Estimated Contract Employee Pay | 43,956 |
| (At $111 per hour x 36 hours per week average x 11 weeks) | |
| Estimated CalPERS Pension Double-Dipping Income | 44,468 |
| (At $210,213.36 per year for 11 weeks) | |
| ESTIMATED TOTAL 2009 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND PENSION INCOME | 596,657 |
| (All pension income was obtained while “double-dipping” by working as a contract employee El Segundo City Police Chief) | |
Regular Earnings, Leave Payout, and Pension Benefit Spike
Police Chief David Cummings received a 23% pay increase effective October 1, 2008, about a year before his retirement, which spiked his 2009 total earnings and leave payout, and his annual pension. The raise spiked his regular earnings by $42,190 (from $183,437 to $225,627), and his accumulated vacation and sick leave payout (cash-out) value by $37,336 (from $162,332 to $199,668), for a total earnings spike of $79,527. His annual pension was spiked by an estimated $39,308 (from $170,905 to $210,213).
Police officers and firefighters are credited and allowed to accumulate and roll-over from year to year huge numbers of vacation and sick leave hours, which can be cashed out at a higher pay rate in later years and upon retirement. His total 2009 earnings was $425,775 – consisting of $225,627 Regular Earnings, $480 Special Compensation, and $199,668 Leave Payout. He retired in 2009 with a pension of $210,213.36 yearly ($17,517.78 monthly) according to CaliforniaPensionReform.com, plus medical insurance, for the rest of his life.
The following table summarizes Police Chief David Cummings’ spikes resulting from his 23% raise.
| Regular Earnings | Special Comp. | Overtime | Leave Payout | Total Earnings | Yearly Pension | |
| Before 23% Raise | 183,437 | 480 | 0 | 162,332 | 346,248 | 170,905 |
| After 23% Raise | 225,627 | 480 | 0 | 199,668 | 425,775 | 210,213 |
| Spike Amount | 42,190 | 0 | 0 | 37,336 | 80,007 | 39,308 |
The reason given for Cummings’ 23% pay increase that spiked his pay, leave payout, and pension was salary compaction, also known as salary compression, caused by large pay increases given to the police union members.
Links to Related Documents: … Continue reading