Vancouver mayor and council expense report reveals who spent what

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson spent $136.80 on candies for the 2015 Chinese New Year Parade, $1,237.50 for a Pride Guide advertisementand $1,800.02 for an year-long subscription to media monitoring service Infomart.

Thosenumbers are part of thejust-released 2015 city council expense summary which shows Robertson rang up expenses of$39,153.32 last year, a large portion of the expenses due to travel to Paris, Vatican City, China,Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa andEdmonton.

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Of the 10city councilors,Heather Deal ran up the biggest total expense tab$14,200.12followed by Adriane Carr's $13,610,28.

Geoff Meggssubmitted receipts for$2,313.64 under the parking and transportation category, charging fortransit passes, taxis fares, Modo Car Co-op,Car2Go ridesand parking.

However, Meggs and Deputy Mayor Andrea Reimer werethe only council members not collecting the annual transportation allowance of $4,254.24 . Reimer was reimbursed $649.26 for parking andtransportation.

Councilor KerryJangdid collectthetransportation allowance and was also reimbursed an additional $186.93 in parking expenses.

Raymond Louie was reimbursed $450.00 for Christmas cards whileTim Stevenson collected$25.64 for a book entitled "The Comeback How Aboriginals are Reclaiming Power and Influence."

The mayor and councillors get an annual stipend for municipal-related expenses.Expenses for the mayor and councilors all came in under theirannual allotted budget.