Californians may soon find out how much the state's community colleges pay their executives and workers.
State Controller John Chiang and Community College Chancellor Jack Scott put out a call this week to California's two-year colleges and college districts to furnish salary and compensation figures for the controller's public earnings website.
The site, launched by Chiang in October in response to the city of Bell salary scandal, already includes data from the state's counties, most of the cities and special districts and all 23 California State University campuses.
Casaleggio said the request covers elected college board members as well as employees, but not private contractors working on construction programs. The Los Angeles Times, in a series earlier this year, found that the Los Angeles Community College District had doubled and in some cases tripled its construction management salary costs by paying politically connected contractors to serve as employers of record — known as "body shops" in the construction industry — for people who do no actual work for them.
The new appeal, if successful, will leave the University of California system one of the last agencies whose compensation figures have not been disclosed to the public.
"The Controller contacted the UC President's office with the same request to obtain salary and compensation information for officials and employees of each of the UC campuses," Garin Casaleggio, Chiang's deputy communications director, said in an email. "The request was not immediately embraced, but discussions are ongoing."
Casaleggio said the controller expects to post the pay information in April.
-- Gale Holland
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