Atlanta budget follies
May 1, 2008 at 6:32 pm by Scott Henry in NewsWednesday’s eight-hour meeting of the Atlanta City Council’s Finance Committee was, by turns, tense, confrontational and deadly dull. But there were moments of humor, as when the city auditor’s office revealed that a data-entry glitch had resulted in a few employees receiving the wrong mileage reimbursement rate one week.
They should have gotten 40 cents per mile. Instead, they were reimbursed at a rate of $40 per mile. Oops. The error resulted in more than $300,000 being mistakenly paid out to about 18 city workers – in some cases, amounting to a year’s salary in a single paycheck.
Some of the employees dutifully reported the mistake. Others apparently went shopping. The auditor reported the city had recovered all but $41,000 of the money and was attempting to pry the balance out of a couple of holdouts who seem to think they won the paycheck lottery.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Has anyone asked Mayor Franklin if Atlanta “CFO” Janice Davis will be one of the laid off employees?