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{"id":4689,"date":"2020-04-18T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:30:19","slug":"lethbridge-city-council-spent-172k-on-travel-2017-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2020\/04\/18\/lethbridge-city-council-spent-172k-on-travel-2017-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge City Council spent $172K on travel 2017\u20132019"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe City of Lethbridge recently published travel expenses for the mayor and city councillors. I decided to collect and graph the data since 2017, when the current city council was put in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Before we get into the graphs, let\u2019s highlight some larger numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Combined, all city council members spent $62,338 for travel and per diem expenses in 2017, $55,098 in 2018, and $55,048 in 2019. They spent $172,484 over the entire 3-year period<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThey had budgeted a combined $94,500 for 2017, $112,000 for 2018, and $112,000 for 2019. (Although Campbell and Crowson had prorated budgets in 2017, since they were elected in only the last quarter of 2017). That comes to $318,500 for the entire 3-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They spent about 66% of their combined travel and per diem budgets in 2017 and about 49% in both 2018 and 2019. If you calculate their spending for the entire 3-year period, it comes to about 54% of their travel and per diem budgets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow onto the graphs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I graphed total expenses for each council member, total per diem for each council member, number of events attended, both total expenses and total per diem each council member spent per event, per diem per day, and finally 3-year averages per event for travel and per diem, as well as 3-year averages for per diem per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n