Mayor Walker blasts fellow Councilors over credit card policy vote

Former City Manager Tarron Richardson said a new credit card policy was "of paramount importance" back in 2019, but City Council resisted adopting his proposal.

"Yesterday, the four other councilors -who haven’t created anything during their tenure- voted against allowing each councilor to have meaningful discretionary spending. Even the $2,200 that staff proposed, was decreased to $1000 because Lloyd believes that individuals councilors shouldn’t have discretionary spending. During our 2019 meeting, it was proposed that each councilor has a discretionary spending limit of $5000." - Mayor Nikuyah Walker, April 14 Facebook post.

Actually, former city manager Tarron Richardson first proposed a spending limit, along with a re-hauling of the city's credit card policy, shortly after he became city manager. Indeed, at a Council retreat in July 2019, the consensus was that the limit should be $5,000 a month, with a slightly higher amount for the Mayor, but Richardson disagreed with that and his proposal lowered that amount and put in procedures, he said, that were "designed to increase accountability and plug holes in the existing system that could…