New story….
January 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Great new yarn by colleagues Megan O’Matz and Andy Reid.
“Trips by the South Florida Water Management District’s governing board include flights with only one passenger, hops shorter than some workday commutes, and treks to such affairs as the governor’s swearing-in ceremony and a district office barbecue, according to a review by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
From October 2004 to September 2007, the district’s governing board members flew almost 600 times, costing more than $800,000 in fuel, insurance, hangar space, maintenance and other expenses, according to the Sun-Sentinel’s examination of flight logs, budgets and other records.”
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Allison // Jan 13, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Oh SNAP. Greedy buggers.
2 Accountant // Jan 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm
These media commandoes spun quite a yarn, that’s for sure. The point of this article is what? Flying board members to agency meetings or mission-related conferences is no different from flying scientists to water monitoring stations or engineers to a remote Everglades restoration project - they are all doing a specific business -related job they are responsible for and are members of the same team working for us as citizens. As the article points out, eliminating travel by management or board would not eliminate any of the aircraft, which perform a much larger mission. Also, seems to me that most of the data used in the article, and the 22 -year old auditor’s report, are old and irrelevant to their current day policy which prohibits travel not directly related to the organization’s business. Must have been a slow news day …
3 Ryan // Jan 13, 2008 at 5:56 pm
And you are?
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