City council will consider stricter credit card policy for members

YOUNGSTOWN —City council will consider a stricter policy on its members’ use of city credit cards for travel expenses.

With a new council taking over this past January, its members wanted a revised policy, said Councilwoman Carol Rimedio-Righetti, D-4th. She is the head of the finance committee and the only holdover member of council from last year.

Among the changes to the policy, if adopted at Wednesday’s meeting, are:

• Forbidding the use of city credit cards for fuel purchases for personal vehicles.

• If members rent cars they must be a “subcompact vehicle at the most economic price.”

• Members cannot charge telephone use fees to the city credit card.

• Each member must “sign an affidavit attesting to the appropriate use of the card ... prior to returning the card and receipts.”

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