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Blog: The Commissioner Frazier Mileage Saga Continues

This is just a brief update on the last blog about Commissioner Robin Frazier's mileage reimbursements.


This is just a brief up-date on the last blog about Commissioner Robin Frazier’s expense account supplements to her regular county paycheck. As long as she continues to collect money from County coffers for mileage reimbursements and expenses that are an abuse of her office, I intend to keep getting the supporting documents from the county and writing about them so we all know just what sort of person we have impersonating an elected official here in Carroll.

It is increasingly difficult to provide this information on a timely basis as the County has decided to maximize the number of days it takes in providing the documents to me as allowed by State Law. Even though the documents are readily accessible by the County Comptroller, who issues the check as payment for them, it takes that office a full 30 days and then some to produce the documents to me. Let’s face it, I am writing this at first opportunity in mid-February, 2012 when the expense reports were filed for November and December, 2011 before the end of the year. The check to pay Frazier was cut on January 6, 2012. How well would that delivery of cost accounting play in the private sector?

For the record, both the November and December 2011 expense reports are signed by Robin Frazier and are approved by Chief-of-Staff Steve Powell. None off the documents have a beginning or ending odometer reading as required – they are simply left blank. Here is the accounting (October 2011 has already been detailed in an earlier blog):

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November 2011:

11/3/11: $7.65 to travel from Frazier’s home to Baugher's
Restaurant for an agri-business breakfast $7.45

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11/3/11 to travel from the County Office Building to the
MD Assoc. of Counties fall meeting / retreat in Annapolis $54.45

11/4/11 to travel from the MACO retreat in Annapolis to
her home: $59.40

11/11/11 to drive from her home to attend a Veteran’s Day
ceremony at North Carroll High School: $18.45 (That school is not in Frazier’s
district, it’s Shoemaker’s)

11/12/11 to drive from home to the Veteran’s Day ceremony
in Harney: $5.40

11/16/11 to drive from home to McDaniel College for an
unspecified reason: $11.25

11/16/11 to drive from the County Office Building to the
Ledo Pizza Restaurant in Eldersburg for a Nine-Twelve Group Meeting: $25.65

11/19/11 for a drive from home to Paradisos Restaurant in
Westminster to meet with citizens: $11.25

11/19/11 to drive from home (again) to the Arcadia Fire
Department [in Baltimore County] to meet with a citizen: $21.60

11/28/11 to drive from home to attend a Planning
Commission meeting at the County Office Building [Commissioner Frazier is not
the ex-officio member of the Planning Commission, Rothschild is.] $11.25

Total for mileage reimbursements for November 2011:
$226.35

Now for December 2011:

12/1/11 To travel from home to the Manchester Fire Hall
for a MD Municipal League Chapter meeting (dinner): $18.90

12/2/11 To drive from her home to the Manchester Valley
High School for a FAA Banquet: $20.70

12/3/11 To drive from home to someplace in Mt. Airy  for an Annual Open House: $24.75 [it so happens as Mt. Airy is not in Commissioner Frazier’s district, it’s Rothschild’s)

12/8/11 to drive from home to the Friendly Farms
Restaurant in Baltimore County for an undisclosed reason: $20.70

12/12/11 to drive from Taneytown to the MD Senate Office
Building in Annapolis: $62.55

12/13/11 to drive from Taneytown to the County Office
Building to attend a meeting with the Carroll Legislative Delegation: $11.25

12/14/11 to drive from Taneytown to the County Office
Building in Westminster for a FAA Meeting: $11.25

12/15/11 to drive from home in Taneytown to the WTTR
Radio station in Westminster: $11.25

12/16/11 to drive from home to the North Carroll Senior
Center in Hampstead for a holiday meal [Hampstead is not in Frazier’s District,
it’s Shoemakers) $19.80

Total Mileage Reimbursement for December 2011: $201.15

So the total for Commissioner Frazier’s County Check
#231500 for mileage reimbursements for the months of October, November, and
December 2011 is $693.45

Speaking for myself, I don’t really care if Rob-“em” Frazier wants to attend these various political and social functions; I just wish she had some moral convictions about doing so by not expecting the rest of us in Carroll County to pay for her joy rides. We all have every right to go where we please and when we please in this great country but the rest don’t expect others to pay us for exercising that freedom.

If she really has County business in Annapolis, then she should be using one of the County pool cars available to the Commissioners and staff. They are all fueled up and ready to go at no additional charge to County taxpayers.

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