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Perhaps you need to FOI his overall credit card reimbursements. That may be revealing in his personal spending habits. Lots of goodies are surely to be found on these receipts! Check it.

First, I did not do the FOI request, the documents were supplied to me. The reimbursement forms included the personal credit card statements as backup to the reimbursement requests. Information on the personal credit cards not related to the reimbursement requests was redacted, as it should be. Personal information is not FOI able. In my opinion, the reimbursement requests and backup documentation were handled very well with detail and accuracy.

I'm not saying get where he spends his personal money but it has been told to me that he puts lots of items on his credit card on almost a daily basis and gets reimbursed. Might be interesting.

I'll dust off my own FOI pencil and request some pertinent info. Everything he is reimbursed is discoverable, not just travel expenses.

LL, I have the reimbursement forms for the Mayor and travel is not broken out separately. The reimbursement forms are done weekly and show all reimbursements, not just those for travel. Since the Mayor travels about once every two weeks on average, the review included probably about half of his reimbursement forms. Rarely was there any reimbursement for things other than hotel, airfare, registration fees and the like. If you want to see them, e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

LL, I believe that Mr. Miller has iterated & reiterated that there were no personal reimbursed personal expenses in the documentation pertaining to Mayor Hays. If I understand Mr. Miller’s response to your first comment is that copies of credit card statements were included with the reimbursement request form. I’m unsure of your agenda toward Mayor Hays, but by all means, knock yourself out with the FOI request for Mayor Hays’ personal information. Better yet, why not FOI all of the City Council’s personal information that way you’ll know who shops at Victoria Secret or Cupids, Dillard’s or Greenhaw’s, Target or Wal-Mart.

I think you misunderstand, I don't care about their personal expenses however many items are purchased such as electronic items etc, that are reimbursed as city expenses. Who maintains an inventory of those items? I think it might be a better policy for those who use credit cards to use a city issued card rather than a personal card. That makes it to easy to "cross" purchase items that end up being used for personal reasons rather than city purposes. Like, why does the mayor need an iPhone, one of the most expensive cell phones available?

scott, i think the important fact here is that over the past three and a half years the mayor has spent about $100,000 of taxpayer money to travel. this was done at a time when elelctric rates increased by 40% and almost every other utility bill and fee that exist was raised. the mayor even asked us to pay more taxes. if the mayor wants to go spend time with the buddies he has made from around the country, he should pay for it himself. taxpayers are having to tighten their belts at home and hays should do the same.

Bubba, I agree and my last paragraph in the post indicated that the debate should be about the number of trips and value to the City.

LevyLover, I agree on the City credit card thing too. It would seem to make things more accountable and the frequent flyer miles would accumulate to the City to defray other travel costs. However, I did not see any cell phones, pda's, or other electronics on the expense reports I was provided

I wonder if the Admiral claims his frequent flyer miles on his income tax as you are required to do?

Is it going to be realistic to think Hays can be beaten in the fall?

There's no way he'll win if the people find out how much he's been ripping them off for the last 20 yrs. I'd like to know who paid for his mansion high on the hill!

And why does the city not have a credit card? Doesn't make sense to give the mayor all those free miles when they could be used for his business travels and save us some money.....thanks for nothin' hays!

I like how hays always tells us there's no money to keep your fire station open and yet he is still wasting money on his collection of floating rust buckets. Rumor has it half a mil was spent just to deliver that sub!

How many thousands have been spent on the Hogga (remember the tugboat) That still sits in a ship yard in California? why aint it here yet? This is all so ridiculous.

Give the mayor time, and he'll have a fleet of boats. We have got to get out and put him out of office. Then, he can fly anywhere, he chooses with his money.