Boston Mayor Michelle Wu dropped greater than $13,000 in taxpayer funds on journey lodging and a safety element for her four-day journey to Canada, the place she chopped down the town’s official Christmas tree gifted by the Nova Scotia province.
Wu introduced alongside her household, three employees members and two Boston Cops for final month’s journey to the Canadian province at a price of roughly $13,365, all on the taxpayers’ dime, in accordance with up to date information launched by the town Tuesday.
Beforehand, the town had launched incomplete information that indicated the mayor’s journey value simply $5,062, when factoring in flight and lodge lodging for the mayor and two employees members, from Nov. 9-12.
The newest information present that Wu introduced alongside a further employees member, and two Boston Cops who supplied her safety element in the course of the journey. The mayor’s out-of-state safety element value taxpayers $6,220.80.
The 2 officers who got here alongside have been Cary Chin and Ydritzabel Oller, who had their transportation, together with flight, rental automobiles, and associated bills of parking and gasoline, together with meals and lodge lodging lined as a part of the fee.
The extra Metropolis Corridor employees member who accompanied the mayor was Cathy Baker-Eclipse, interim commissioner of the parks and recreation division, whose journey lodging value taxpayers $2,083.76.
Baker-Eclipse flew financial system each methods at a complete value of $1,732.53 and spent a single evening on the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Resort at $292.13. Her journey to the Halifax airport rounded out her bills, at $59.10.
By comparability, Wu flew financial system each methods, from Boston to Halifax and again. She spent $573.79 on her flight, and $735.24 for a three-night keep for her and her household on the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Resort — for a complete value to taxpayers of $1,309.03.
Metropolis taxpayers lined lodge lodging for Wu’s husband and three youngsters, however not their flights.
The mayor’s bills have been additionally decrease than that of the 2 metropolis staffers, Paul Bologna, a photographer for the mayor’s workplace, and Phyllis St-Hubert, director of scheduling and advance.
The Canadian journey was touted by the town as a means for the mayor to spotlight a unbroken partnership with the Nova Scotia province that started after an explosion that passed off there in 1917 in Halifax Harbor, killing roughly 2,000 individuals.
Nova Scotia offers the town with its Boston Widespread Christmas tree every year as a thank-you for the town’s response which included sending medical help and aid provides following the explosion.
Wu turned the primary Boston mayor to attend and take part within the Boston tree-cutting ceremony within the Canadian province.
