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..11 exactly like a personal expense. He expended mainly his own money. Council did authorize $500.00 for airfare, for some reason his airfare was higher. I think if you look at his total expense the $500.00 is probably less than a third of what he spent, although I don't know what he spent. Second issue is about the CML, I agree I went to CML it is educational and I think it is valuable. My only question is in the budget it is not called out as an individual line item on the budget that I voted on. It may very well be in there and staff may know that it is in there, but there is no way for us to know that it is in there. I certainly don't disagree with staff going, that is well within the City Administrator and her decision to send staff. That is controled within her budget and she controls her budget. The question that was brought up last week was the expenditure of City funds for elected officials for any reasons without authorization. I was bringing up that this was an expenditure that wasn't authorized, not that I disagree with the authorization or whether it should be paid or not. It is the same thing, either we should do or shouldn't do it. If you want to set a policy to do it that is fine with me. If we're not going to do it then we shouldn't jump on one Councilman for doing it and not on another one for not doing it. SZYmanski: I'd like to make a statement being that I'm the one they are referring to. Not only was it the $518.00 that he borrowed when he could have used his own charge card and then brought it back to us. He comes to Finance Committee and says can I borrow a $1,000.00 and have it taken out of my pay, interest free to do this for the restaurants. That was the lid that blew off. Now that was something personal, we did not agree to fund that. There again if one person from City Hall can borrow a $1,000.00 interest free is 22