The Newport News City Council plans to create a formal handbook to guide council conduct and policies after concerns were raised about council members’ misuse of city-issued credit cards. During Tuesday’s council work session, Mayor Phillip Jones suggested creating the handbook to guide council behavior and to codify roles and responsibilities. “We had a few calls and emails about credit cards .
Newport News mayor proposes rules handbook after City Council credit card misuse dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
During Tuesday's council work session, Mayor Phillip Jones suggested creating a formal policy handbook to guide council behavior and to codify roles and responsibilities. A draft is hoped to be before the council later this year, presumably around late summer and early fall.
Some members of Newport News City Council will have to pay money back to the city. This after documents obtained by News 3 show there was a misuse of city credit cards.
A more than $700 flight to Indiana to watch a Christopher Newport University basketball game, a $200 a night hotel reservation, and roughly $1,100 in meals were among the inappropriate charges some Newport News City Council members made on city-issued credit cards earlier this year, according to an internal city review. The credit card expenditures were detailed in a legal memo sent May 1 from .