Wednesday, September 5, 2012

CBE trustee urges expense disclosure

By Richard Cuthbertson, Calgary Herald

A Calgary Board of Education trustee is pushing for greater public disclosure of expenses of elected officials and top managers, but the issue won’t be debated until October.

At a board meeting Tuesday evening, a simple item on where trustee remuneration should placed in the larger governance policies turned into a testy sparring match over meeting procedure between Trustee Sheila Taylor and board chairwoman Pat Cochrane.

Taylor had hoped to talk about greater disclosure of expenses.

Currently, trustees and senior officials disclose on the board financial statements the total amount they have expensed. However, details of who spent on what is not made public.

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