What is astounding is that Councilmember Turner has only listed travel expenditures for one year, 2019. Yet expenditures from 2019 to 2024 should be listed but are not. The question is why? Your guess is as good as anyone else’s. I’m sure he’ll try to provide a reasonable explanation, but it does not excuse the fact that he has not bothered to list 5 years’ worth of travel expenditures.

So much for a councilmember that repeatedly calls for transparency and accountability. We can see that he has traveled quite a bit and yet not bothered to publicly list any of it. All information obtained through a public information request as it is not publicly posted under Follow Your Money.

Let’s begin with a list of all of the travel that Turner did not bother to post publicly. (This information was obtained via my public information request. Please note I received no public information on travel expenditures prior to November, 2022. It is most likely due to COVID in 2020 and 2021). Here is the list of Turner’s travel:

·         National League of Cities Summit, Kansas City, MO, November 16-19, 2022, $3285.79

·         National League of Cities Conference, Washington, D.C., March 26-28, 2023, $3650.37

·         Indoor AG Tech Innovation Summit, New York City, Jun 29-30, 2023, $3165.36

·         Sister Cities trip, Memmingen, Germany, July 19-23, 2023, $917.46

·         League of Cities and Towns Conference, Tucson. AZ, August 29 – September 1, 2023*

·         Renaissance Weekend, New York City, October 5-9, 2023, $3683.63

·         Colorado River Water Users Association, Washington, D.C., October 17-20, 2023, $1353.21

·         National League of Cities Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 15-18, 2023, $1979.50

·         Colorado River Water Users Association, Las Vegas, NV, December 13-15, 2023, $1651.32

·         Renaissance Weekend, Charleston, SC, December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024, $4661.51

·         National League of Cities Conference, Washington, D.C., March 9 -13, 2024, $4631.96

Total expenditures for these 10 trips: $28,980.11 (*League August 2023 expenditures unknown).

City travel policy states under Section D, examples of what is not allowed: “Priority boarding fees and airline seat premiums or upgrades, unless other options are not available.” For the trips listed above $836.73 was charged (and paid) for seat upgrades/preferred seats/main cabin extra seats.

There is certainly more to cover but this is enough overload for you, the reader. In Part 3 of this series, we will take a deeper dive into Turner’s travel expenditures.

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