Zine calls for pay cut for top brass

Amid Los Angeles' estimated $400 million shortfall and a grim economic outlook, City Councilman Dennis Zine introduced a motion Friday to consider cutting the city's fattest executive-level salaries and freezing other workers' pay increases when their contracts - including police and fire - are renegotiated next year. Brandon Lowery in the Daily News.

The motion comes on the heels of the council's Wednesday approval of standard 3 percent raises for department heads, putting LAPD Chief William Bratton's salary at $320,736 and Department of Water and Power General Manager H. David Nahai's at $324,428.

Zine said he wanted to both cut costs and instill confidence in Angelenos who might balk at giving raises to those in the city's highest pay brackets.