A.G. Gancarski
The afternoon slate of transition budget team leader Sam Mousa‘s budget meetings related to the Lenny Curry mayoral transition continues with the Ethics Office and Carla Miller.
1:17 p.m.: The usual review of the budget pages. No revenues and salaries are up $20,000 (a new employee). Pension contribution up $28,000.
1:21 p.m.: Mousa wants to know how much of the work is ethics training and advice. It is about 90 percent of what the department does. There is one enforcement case a year; usually, they kick those investigations to the state level. Preventive action is the phrase that pays.
1:23 p.m.: Mousa wants to know how decisions are made regarding how to address an issues. There is an online procedure.
1:24 p.m.: Susie Wiles just popped in and called Mousa out of the room, as Miller continues answering his question.
1:26 p.m.: Wiles and Mousa have returned, as Mike Weinstein talks about he and Miller starting in city government in 1075 together. Miller: “We were young.”
