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Harvey County treasurer defends travel/per diem reporting, reiterates Motor Vehicle Fund control
Summary
County Treasurer Becky Fields told commissioners hotel charges subtracted from her per-diem meal allowance were unrelated to meals and reiterated that the Motor Vehicle Fund's expenses are controlled by the Treasurer's office, not the commission.
County Treasurer Becky Fields addressed the board during department reports to explain her recent per-diem and travel expense submissions and to restate the statutory authority over the Motor Vehicle Fund. Fields told commissioners that the hotel charges subtracted from her per-diem request for meals on a trip to Philadelphia "were not related to the meal expenses." She said she had sent an explanatory email to the commissioners and the press including court cases and attorney-general opinions reinforcing that the Treasurer — not the County Commission — controls Motor Vehicle Fund expenses.
Her comments followed public mention of oversight and travel expenses by a Walton resident, who referenced a recent trip by the County Treasurer to Philadelphia and older travel expenses by Commissioner Reimer. Fields also explained procedural details for attendance at the conference, noting many Kansas treasurers arrived earlier in the weekend to participate in Sunday-afternoon programming. The board did not take formal action at this meeting on travel oversight; the exchange was recorded as part of routine department reporting.
