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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Board of Supervisor Travel - Part 7 - Jim Howard

by Neil Richard

Editor's Note: As a brief reminder, the results below are broken down into different categories and time frames. The three main time frames are:


  • July 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017
  • January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018
  • July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018

The major categories are Expenses, Reimbursements, and Repayments. Within the Expenses and Reimbursement categories, the data is further broken down into Transportation, Food, Lodging, Registration Fees, and Unknown. Transportation is further broken down into Gas, Tolls, Taxis, Parking, Mileage, and Airlines.

Additionally, there are special notes for data related to Virginia Association of Counties (VACo), National Association of Counties (NACo), and Anomalies. Anomalies are data points that raise questions about their veracity, missing receipts, or calculation errors.

July 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Expenses
$402.81 in hotel charges from the Omni in Hot Springs, VA for the VACo conference. $30.00 Registration Fee for an appreciation breakfast with the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and $250.00 for the 2017 VACo Annual Conference. Three more Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce events with Registration Fees totaling $120.00

Reimbursements
$265.79 for Mileage to three meetings, one of which was the VACo conference.

Repayments
None.

Anomalies
There is a listing for "Expenses for 2017 Annual VACo Conference" with an amount of $840.04. There were no attached receipts. It's not clear if this was related to the hotel stay at the Omni or not. Additionally, the final bill from the Omni was for $1,611.24 but only $402.81 was charged to the County. We assume this is because the deposit of $402.81 was paid prior to the July 1, 2017 time frame we set for our data request. As for the other half of the total bill, $805.62, it appears Howard shared a room with another adult. We assume the County accounted for the other half of the bill by charging the amount to Howard's wife. We base this on the bill stating it was for "2 Adults" and "1 King Bed."

January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018

Jim Howard ended his term on December 31, 2017. Therefore, he is not going to show in the second six-month block of our three major time frames from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018.

July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018

Jim Howard ended his term on December 31, 2017. Therefore, he is not going to show in the third six-month block of our three major time frames from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.

18 Month Grand Total

Expenses totaled $1,642.85.
Reimbursements totaled $265.79.

Supervisor's Response


In an effort to hear directly from the Supervisors on the topic of travel, we asked them a few questions. Jim Howard did not respond to our email.


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