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 .
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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.
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 .
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 .