OAKLAND — A frustrated U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson issued an order Thursday demanding the city of Oakland pay $100,000 to the court to compensate a police monitor, two days after City Council balked at extending the monitoring firm’s full contract.

“This is untenable,” Henderson wrote in the two-page order, referring to the council vote.

On Tuesday, council members questioned the work performed by Robert Warshaw, who is tasked with monitoring the department’s mandatory reform efforts. Instead of approving a one-year contract with Warshaw’s two companies, council unanimously extended it for only two months so they can further review it.

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Judge overseeing Oakland police reforms plans to retire Councilwoman Desley Brooks complained that Warshaw’s reports look like a “cut and paste” job and said, “I don’t think we are getting our money’s worth.” Council is scheduled to discuss the contracts at a future public safety committee meeting.

The yearlong contracts through January 2018 would pay Police Performance Solutions LLC $722,076 and Warshaw & Associates $165,000. In addition, the city owes Warshaw $75,000 in last year’s contract because of added work caused by a teen sexual misconduct investigation. The city has already paid Warshaw’s groups more than $6 million since 2010.

In his order, Henderson said the city has until Feb. 1 to deposit $100,000 in the court registry and must do so moving forward until the monitor’s work is over.

“The monitor and current compliance director have previously reached contractual agreements with the city — albeit not always without delay — but such agreements are not required for their compensation,” the judge wrote. “To avoid further delays, and to ensure the continuity of court oversight, the court now orders that the monitor and compliance director shall both be paid through the court registry.”

Warshaw serves as both the monitor and compliance director and writes monthly reports on the police department’s progress in achieving reforms required under a 2003 negotiated settlement agreement. The agreement stemmed from the Rider police misconduct case in which four officers were accused of beating and planting drugs on West Oakland residents. The department remains out of full compliance on three tasks.

Civil rights attorney John Burris, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the settlement agreement, said any delay to the monitor’s work undermines the completion of the reform efforts.

“We certainly didn’t need any glitches,” Burris said.

Henderson also wrote “the timing of the city’s defiance is somewhat suspicious” because it came a week after he announced he would retire in August.