The Press have taken up the case of local Councillor Sonja Crisp who – as was reported on this web site last month – is prone to making trips to London at taxpayer’s expense.
The trips were not in themselves particularly expensive or exceptional, but her attempts to justify the £800 plus bill lacked conviction.
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At a time when the Council says that it can’t afford to spend £50 topping up salt bins, every expense should be challenged.
The Local Government Association (LGA) is little more than a talking shop and such business as it transacts (basically lobbying central government) is in the hands of a few leading councillors (none of whom are from York).
The minutes of the “Culture, Leisure and sports Board” meetings are publicly available and can be found here.
Neither suggests that the Council’s representative even uttered a word.
It would probably have gone unnoticed if the Councillor had not got “form”
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She also has the most fluid Register of Interests ever seen on the York Council web site. It includes a visit to Blackpool in August to participate in the “Baltic States Knowledge Exchange Visit 2013” (!!!)
Still it’s not as bad as the Labour MP, who claimed back – from taxpayers – 40p for the cost of buying a bottle of milk!
Cllr Crisp has to justify her activities to the next York Council meeting which takes place on 12th December.