Traveling for official city business is often part of a city council member’s job, allowing an elected official to gain insight on how peers in other cities and countries are handling a variety of issues. But with travel come expenses that are often paid for by taxpayers. The expenses cities cover on council members’ behalf make up only a small fraction of overall budgets, but without .
To learn more about how city council members are spending taxpayer dollars, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for all expenses that six Hampton Roads cities paid for city council members in 2023. Total expenses range from about $41,000 in Newport News to $12,400 in Norfolk.
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Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones and Christopher Newport University President William Kelly announced this week the establishment of a task force to “understand, acknowledge and address the history and development of Christopher Newport University and the city’s role in that development.” The task force will research the decisions that led to the placement of the university in the Shoe Lane .
In recent months, CNU faced scrutiny over the history of its growth, which included taking land from Black residents in the 1960s through eminent domain.