Federal monitors overseeing the Oakland Police Department will now have extra money in their pockets.

On Wednesday, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to increase the two year contract with federal monitors by $100,000. The Council passed the measure with no comment.

City Administrator Deanna J. Santana requested the additional funds to cover the cost of extra work given to the monitors by the federal judge assigned to the police department's negotiated settlement agreement. The city has not said how much in total it has spent for federal monitors.

The monitoring team recently was given additional oversight duties by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson who has repeatedly voiced his frustration over OPD's failure to fully comply with all of the agreed upon reforms. Henderson is threatening to put the police department in federal receivership.

As a result of the court's action, Police Performance Solutions are now overseeing additional operating functions of the department. The contract now totals $1.8 million.

According to a staff report, Santana's office is seeking, "to increase the monitoring services and compensation commensurate with the Federal Court order compliance service."

Oakland has paid for the monitors since they were imposed on the police department. Officials have said that the monitoring services are being paid for through the police department's budget. The contract is scheduled to run until January 2014.

The vote also gives the city administrator the authority to "to take all actions that may be necessary to further amend or modify the Police Professional Standards contract, including entering into negotiations, certifications, assurances and executing relevant contract documents."

Federal monitors have been in place since 2003, when the city of Oakland agreed to the court-approved negotiated settlement that requires major changes in how the city's police report and investigate use of force.

In their latest quarterly report, federal monitors have expressed serious concern over reform efforts being carried out by the police department. In addition, the monitors said they have problems with how OPD is handling Occupy Oakland actions.

"The events around Occupy Oakland appear to raise some serious concerns about the capacity of the department to, on its own, adopt and hold true to the best practices in American policing," the monitors wrote.