Our partner inewsource has exclusively reported on credit card misuse at SANDAG. Now, the agency has new rules – but whether anyone will face consequences for past charges has yet to be determined. Read more here ⤵️
during their board meeting Friday, now requiring staff to submit substantially more documentation for credit card charges and business meals. The cost of meals are now subject to annual rates set by the federal government; in San Diego, for example, dinner is capped at $34 per person.
“A lot of people are looking at this agency and the fact that we have found areas where monies were spent in excess,” said Carlsbad mayor and SANDAG board member Matt Hall. “I think the quicker we can clear the air on this and get that monies back in our coffers, the better it is.”, including nearly $70,000 spent at local restaurants over a four-year period.and often were joined by elected officials, fellow employees, consultants and lobbyists.
Taxpayers were forced to foot the bills, and the agency’s credit cardholders continued to rack up charges without any clear rules. The charges — made at Rei Do Gado, Donovan’s steakhouse and in the U.S. Grant Hotel, among others — were called by one government ethics expert a “clear abuse” of public funds.
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