The case of the 507 missing debit cards from the Alvin Brown administration

Employee recognition programs are wonderful; but so is fiscal accountability.

An email from Jacksonville Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa to Mayor Lenny Curry indicated that over 500 debit cards have gone missing, from an Alvin Brown era employee recognition program.

$27,425 of debit cards are “unaccounted” for, wrote Mousa, cards “purchased in conjunction with an employee recognition program.”

Adding to the wackiness: “some cards were reconciled with an employee name when distributed.”

Unknown: whether the unaccounted cards were distributed and not recorded, or “simply went missing.”

The city also is on the hook for almost $1,400 more in “activation fees.”

Undoubtedly, Mousa and Curry will be focused like a laser on getting to the next level and figuring out what happened to almost $30,000 in city funds.