{"id":4259,"date":"2010-06-28T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2010-06-29T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:14:24","slug":"sunshine-blog-city-department-heads-expense-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/featured\/2010\/06\/28\/sunshine-blog-city-department-heads-expense-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine blog: City department heads’ expense reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sunshine Blog, formerly known as Sunshine Weekly, is Raleigh Public Record\u2019s effort to live up to it\u2019s name and bring public records to light for the people of Raleigh. Want city, county, state or federal information, or have a question about government that you\u2019ve been dying to ask? Click on the Contact page<\/a> and we\u2019ll do the legwork. We\u2019re expanding the scope this week to include answering questions that our readers have. Send us your question and we\u2019ll figure out the best person to ask and bring you their answers here.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

In our continuing efforts to bring more sunshine to Raleigh city government, this is our second annual edition of what we\u2019ll now call the Expense Report. Below you will find the full documents of the expense reports, credit card statements and requests for reimbursements from city department heads, the mayor and city council members.<\/p>\n

Below this short blog post you\u2019ll be able to read through how the city spends your tax dollars on conferences, trainings, lots of batteries, snacks for the tireless city employees, carwashes and a number of other, occasionally odd, things.<\/p>\n

Find anything interesting? Please leave a comment below.<\/p>\n

Our request last year<\/a> did not return nearly as much as this year, which likely means that we\u2019re getting much better at asking about what we\u2019re looking for. As always, the city\u2019s public affairs department was very responsive to our request and we got this batch of documents within a matter of a few short weeks. Not bad for a request of this nature.<\/p>\n

We did redact two credit card numbers that were left in the material given to the Record.<\/p>\n

Trainings and workshops top the list of expenditures, topping out at more than $20,000. The convention center spent several hundred dollars on batteries. There\u2019s a handful of carwashes billed to the city and a healthy dose of donuts.\u00a0 For the record, none of those donut expenditures came from Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan. And two department heads bought about $300 worth of books from Barnes & Nobles, including such titles as Thank God it\u2019s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love<\/a>, Mastering Communication<\/a> (two copies), and Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Council Members<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Perry James<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Thomas Mccormick<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Russell Allen<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Julian Prosser<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Lawrence Wray<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Roger Krupa<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Mitch Silver<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Michele Grant<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

fy09-10 kristen rosselli<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 John Carman<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Harry Dolan<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Federick Battle<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

fy09-10 diane sauer<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Carl Dawson<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09-10 Barry Furey<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Fy09 10 Valorie Lykes Lockehart<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our continuing efforts to bring more sunshine to Raleigh city government, this is our second annual edition of what we\u2019ll now call the Expense Report. Below you will find the full documents of the expense reports, credit card statements and requests for reimbursements from city department heads, the mayor and city council members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}