The indefatigable Geoff Dornan of the Nevada Appeal reports today that Nevada taxpayers coughed up over $3.5 million last year buying more than 31,000 airplane tickets for state government workers.
What the…? Have these people never heard of a phone? Or video-conferencing? But there’s nothing left to cut in the budget, right? Which government employees did all this traveling and why? Where is that public transparency website of the government’s checkbook when you need it?
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
Want to have a little fun? Look at the budget for the Colorado River Commission (never mind that two state employees retired from positions serving the board and immediatley got big fat contracts working for the board-which might be illegal), and look at the cost for the one day annual trip to D.C. for one staffer;
airfare: over $800
per diem(food/surface travel): over $800!!
That works out to 85 trips per day including weekends. If they didn’t fly on weekends then the average is 124. We have to push for allowable cellphone usage on airplanes so the state can get some business done.