Reimbursement of Mayor's Wife's Travel Expenses

A couple of weeks ago I received the following message from a county official who is looking into the mayor's inappropriate use of city money for his wife's travel expenses.

"Mr. Rodarte:
In regards to the Mayor Melendez and his travel expenses for his wife. As of December 20, 2005 the Mayor has repaid the City of McFarland for his wifes travel expenses.Thank you for bringing this to our attention."

I think it is interesting how quickly the mayor decided to pay after I confronted him about it at the December 8th council meeting and after he was questioned about it by Jose Gaspar from Eye 29 news. 12 days after we brought this to the community's attention he decided to pay it back. I think I should put a copy of the video clip for the news broadcast on this website. What a great idea!

But I still wonder how much money he was trying to get away with. Well stay tuned. As soon as I get the documentation on his itemized travel expenses I will post them to this website. That's if the city ever decides to give me the documents. I wonder why it is taking so long for them to provide me with this documentation, it's been more than 36 days already. I bet it's those pesky guys from the previous administration messing with those computers again. Hmmm...