Summary
PICO RIVERA -- Summer is vacation time for most families, but city council members in the Whittier area spent thousands of tax dollars during the past year traveling to such locales as Puerto Rico and Las Vegas.
A survey of local city council members' travel expenses logged between July 2004 and last month shows that some officials spent thousands of city tax dollars flying to conferences and conventions in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Palm Springs and Washington, D.C., among other locations, and staying at expensive hotels like the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.See the full content of this document
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Taxing Trips
"There is no school, seminar or class that tells a council member how to do his/her job. It's an on-the-job learning process,' Pico Rivera Mayor David Armenta said in explaining why he spent $7,028 on travel expenses, the second most ...
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