A Moratorium on Travel by Birmingham City Officials
Birmingham city officials often travel on trips related to their jobs. When those trips are for the public’s benefit, they travel on the taxpayer’s dime. But travel by the Birmingham City Council and the mayor’s office has been scrutinized as excessive and with unclear returns. Travel became a flashpoint at this week’s city council meeting and Alabama Media Group columnist John Archibald says it a perfect time to institute a moratorium on travel.
