{"id":8488,"date":"2022-03-29T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T22:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:40:15","slug":"did-you-see-the-sandag-audit-%f0%9f%91%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8488","title":{"rendered":"Did You See the SANDAG Audit? \ud83d\udc40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally published by the Office of County Supervisor Jim Desmond<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supervisordesmond.com\/r?u=Q30FXGVW0jM869rtjtmONLFwarReeJ_TCMMCmdRPmc68ryemF2K8kR7r6m56jg7Cobb92UM0lVkdx0_nwT1BGcYh1t3X91qrnUbZkOqCHO0mQDdHPJ3k5km1xJQ3AkwS&amp;e=6a6d23f534203cc9ac5adbfcdb945a11&amp;utm_source=desmond&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=sandag_report&amp;n=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.supervisordesmond.com\/r?u%3DQ30FXGVW0jM869rtjtmONLFwarReeJ_TCMMCmdRPmc68ryemF2K8kR7r6m56jg7Cobb92UM0lVkdx0_nwT1BGcYh1t3X91qrnUbZkOqCHO0mQDdHPJ3k5km1xJQ3AkwS%26e%3D6a6d23f534203cc9ac5adbfcdb945a11%26utm_source%3Ddesmond%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dsandag_report%26n%3D2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648672449937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kVk7C9fxhx4dRrcZjs1zJ\">Did you see the SANDAG audit<\/a>?\u00a0The audit found that over the past four years of credit card purchases, SANDAG spent over $2,485,001 of taxpayer dollars on their procurement card.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cVX1kvdgKuVtpfOeLwVFr9jSeA9J6ekvZbfWVykmg1RjZ3zcU31j2snCSqu0E1tpg1doEyEtT4BDHMVoFs66Zqnsz_l48gg9G0VmqDG-ENAKGweLNcbf22Anrcgf0FiWSjeX7ane60IX4O5SMjOTAxY0IzgGfCr2R3r0CqbCzuncbBGfWIsRKgQ9_uplA-3frw=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/assets.nationbuilder.com\/desmond\/mailings\/342\/attachments\/original\/Screen_Shot_2022-03-17_at_7.51.27_AM.png?1647528764\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from the audit:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The auditor noted, $99.95 for a Target gift card for a monthly prize gift card, $306.53 at the Kimpton Palomar Hotel for a one-night stay for an interview candidate, $1,250 spent on Target gift cards for \u201cSurvey Incentives\u201d, $549.74 at Panera Bread for an \u201cAll Hands\u201d staff meeting, and Draft Regional Plan debrief for all staff on May 29, 2021, while a large portion of SANDAG staff was still telecommuting and not in the main downtown office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audit: SANDAG improperly used credit cards to spend taxpayer money\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bIbHjp4nmRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall summed it up best,\u00a0\u201cManagement, you really dropped the ball on this one. Anytime you\u2019re dealing with public funds, and we find out that after a period of time this much money can\u2019t be accounted for, that doesn\u2019t say much for this establishment\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will see if anything comes of this, as I believe these payments need to be looked into more. I will keep you updated if this story develops.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supervisordesmond.com\/?e=6a6d23f534203cc9ac5adbfcdb945a11&amp;utm_source=desmond&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=sandag_report&amp;n=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.supervisordesmond.com\/?e%3D6a6d23f534203cc9ac5adbfcdb945a11%26utm_source%3Ddesmond%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dsandag_report%26n%3D6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648672449937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3q3rRf4YasznQHQzzfzw4F\">http:\/\/www.supervisordesmond.<wbr \/>com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally published by the Office of County Supervisor Jim Desmond Did you see the SANDAG audit?\u00a0The audit found that over the past four years of credit card purchases, SANDAG spent over $2,485,001 of taxpayer dollars on their procurement card. Here&#8217;s more from the audit: &#8220;The auditor noted, $99.95 for a Target gift card&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did You See the SANDAG Audit? \ud83d\udc40 - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8488\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did You See the SANDAG Audit? \ud83d\udc40 - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This was originally published by the Office of County Supervisor Jim Desmond Did you see the SANDAG audit?\u00a0The audit found that over the past four years of credit card purchases, SANDAG spent over $2,485,001 of taxpayer dollars on their procurement card. 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