Did anyone hear about Bing appointing 4 new fire commissioners at $130,000 each just yesterday?

Seems to me that Bing is asking his employees to give up quite a bit of cash so he can afford to appoint 4 positions in the Fire Department [[Incidentally, these 4 commissioners don't do the job that a Chief can do)...also, he's allotting plenty of cash to "beautify" City parks. If things are so bad Mr. Bing, why would you do such a stuipd thing?