The Bay Area moves beyond pardody

It's an oldie but a goodie.

Your tax dollars at work....

In addition to an estimated $148,000-a-year pension, freshly canned Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly is entitled to cash out her accrued and unused benefits totaling more than $90,000.

The bennies include:

-- Nine weeks of vacation.

-- Two weeks of management leave.

-- Three weeks of executive leave.

-- Ten weeks of sick leave (paid out at 33 cents on the dollar).

It's a grand total payment of $90,024, city officials confirmed.

Mayor Ron Dellums fired Edgerly after she refused to go away quietly when she was accused of interfering in a police investigation that involved her nephew.

Not that she'll be hurting, but Edgerly would have been better off financially if she'd stuck to her original plan to retire July 31.

Had she done that, officials say, Edgerly would have been entitled to what probably would have been a 3 to 4 percent pay hike - meaning at least an extra $4,000 a year during retirement.