Mayor Mike McGinn didn’t respond to our inquiries about his office’s travel policies yesterday (city parks director Tim Gallagher resigned Monday amid criticism of his extensive city-funded travel over the past few months), but City Council president Richard Conlin did. Conlin, who instituted a freeze on council travel last year, said that while “there isn’t a fatwa” on travel by city council members and staff this year, he has cut the legislative department’s $45,000 annual travel budget in half, and estimates that the 87-employee department “will probably spend much less than that” this year.
Conlin headed out last night to Phoenix, AZ, for a conference on food security. The Kellogg Foundation, which is sponsoring the conference, picked up the bill.
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