P cards were issued to most city employees. They are credit cards intended for staff to make legitimate city purchases for city supplies etc. Due to lax or non-existent oversight, a number of city employees instead used the cards to effectively steal money from taxpayers. Mayor Avula promised to reduce the number of cards and to manage them better – reportedly reducing the number of cards. How about eliminating them? Why were there no checks and balances in place?
Agreed!
I agree that P cards should be eliminated. With this city’s record of lax or non-existent oversight, all should have known this was a really bad idea.