In an effort to provide greater transparency for its citizens, the City of Colorado Springs has released expense and mileage reports for Mayor Steve Bach and 29 managers and judges since the Mayor took office in June 2011.

City policy allows for employees to be reimbursed for approved expenses in the conduct of City business. The release is in response to a media open records request.

Often managers absorb the costs of day to day business expenses without reimbursement. Mayor Bach has about $6000 in unreimbursed expenses so far for which he will not seek reimbursement.

In our continuing effort for transparency, we are sending the resulting information to area media. Whenever open records requests produce information with broad public interest, the City reserves the right to post the information on its Web site and to disseminate the information to area media outlets and to interested citizens through other channels.

Specifically, this request focused on the expenses turned in by Mayor Bach and the following positions (whether interim or permanent): City Clerk, City Attorney, Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Economic Vitality and Innovation, Police Chief, Fire Chief, Municipal Judges (there are 12), Chief Financial Officer, Human Resources Director, Chief Communications Officer, Aviation Director, Cemetery Manager/Operations Supervisor, Parking Manager, Information Technology (Chief Information Officer), Innovation and Sustainability Manager, Senior Analyst Bob Cope and Small Business and Spirit (Economic Vitality Specialist).

The resulting spreadsheets of information detail the raw data reported by each individual, allowing each interested citizen to review the data without third-party translation.

The spreadsheet data is summarized below:

• Mayor Steve Bach - $3048.90
• Chief of Staff and Chief of Operations Laura Neumann - $0
• City Attorney Chris Melcher -$0
• Fire Chief Rich Brown -$458.30
• Police Chief Pete Carey - $672.90
• Economic Vitality Chief Steve Cox - $782.37
• Economic Vitality Specialist Donna Nelson - $75.00
• City Clerk Cindy Conway - $0
• Municipal Judges -$0
• Chief Financial Officer – NA
• Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy Johnson – $2131.21
• Human Resources Director Ann Crossey - $560.49
• Human Resources Manager Lori Smith - $980.98
• Chief Communications Officer Cindy Aubrey - $0
• Aviation Director Mark Earle - $3561.73
• Cemetery Manger / Operations Supervisor William Deboer - $28.53
• Parking Manger Greg Warnke -$0
• Information Technology Jesse James - $732.33
• Innovation and Sustainability Manager Nick Kittle -$883.28
• Senior Analyst Bob Cope -$35.00

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