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'Rigorous' meetings for CTA pension officials ' in Hawaii, Vegas
[POLITICS.SUNTIMES] Pension officials with the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Transit Authority need much more than a Ventra Card for some of the taxpayer-funded travel they've been doing in recent years. The CTA's retirement plan and health care trust spent close to $60,000 since 2010 to travel to places such as Honolulu, New Orleans, San Diego and Las Vegas for pension-related conferences. That's according to public documents the CTA plan turned over only after we sued the agency earlier this year for allegedly violating the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, the state law that guarantees public access to certain government records. We had asked for expense reimbursements, among other documents, which the CTA plan refused to provide until the Better Government Association filed suit. (This litigation is in the process of being settled.) The newly released records show the agency's expenses include more than $20,000 on a six-night trip to Hawaii for five people in 2010, $4,400 on a three-night trip to New Orleans for two people in 2011, $7,500 on a four-night, four-person trip to San Diego in 2012 and about $12,000 on a four-night trip to Las Vegas for six people in 2013. The fund's executive director, John Kallianis, was among those who went to Las Vegas and San Diego. He defended the trips, saying the conferences were "rigorous" and "very well worth the expense." Posted by: Fred 2014-08-26 |
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