For all the talk about cutting costs by laying off 4,000 workers, the mayor and City Council arranged to transfer as many workers as possible first from positions paid out of the general fund to proprietary departments and special funds.
Most of them have so far gone to the Department of Water and Power where they got huge raises.
Under the California Public Records Act, OurLA.org has obtained the first list of transfered workers, some of whom are getting raises of up to 50 percent.
Read the story and the list at OurLA.org.