Top Costa Mesa leaders receive first pay raises in nearly a decade

COSTA MESA – Weeks after lower-tier city employees received a bump in pay, top administrators were granted salary increases after going nearly a decade without one.
The pay hikes — approved without much discussion Tuesday by the City Council on a narrow 3 to 2 vote — range from 2 percent to 15.88 percent for division leaders up to City Manager Tom Hatch. 
Council members Jim Righeimer and Allan Mansoor, while saying they appreciate the work the employees do, said they coul