Officials' Travel Expenses From Last Year

Fairhope, Alabama


The Times periodically monitors travel expenses for the city's elected leadership; here are the ones from the last half of last year.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I'd like to see the expense for the whole year, also, I'd like to see the expenses of others that are not elected officials. Is this the expenses of the travel in total or does other expenses incurred get placed on other accounts?
Giorgi said…
Thank you for the disclosure. The expenses by themselves are not denominators of success or failure. What was achieved is what is missing from this report.
Publisher said…
That is subjective, you may ask them individually yourself what was gained from the trips. Sometimes it is for training, sometimes educational, sometimes to make "connections" at national/state levels; the former mayor exampled forming relationships/conversations with others (such as the governor) on long trips ... .
Anonymous said…
what a waste of taxdollars!
Anonymous said…
I think the expenses were fairly reasonable. I mean you have two at 0 and one at $50. It does not look like we are being taken for a ride on travel expense. I think the Mayor/council can do a lot of good by simply saying NO; as in stopping over development. I am coming to the conclusion that support staff is underestimating water runoff and I think they need to rework their calculations. Sorry I got off subject....