LOCAL : Tuttle Refuses a Second Time to Pay for a ‘Lavish’ DWP Dinner Bill
City Controller Rick Tuttle struck again today at the Department of Water and Power.
Tuttle called a City Hall news conference to announce that he will refuse to pay an $879 bill for a downtown dinner party for six top DWP employees, their wives and an assistant city attorney.
“This kind of lavish wining and dining by city employees is a terrible symbol of government waste,” Tuttle said.
Tuttle said DWP General Manager Norman Nichols and his wife were joined at the April 20 dinner by five other top managers and their spouses as well as Edward Farrell, the chief assistant city attorney assigned to the department.
Nichols, who criticized Tuttle last month for disclosing publicly that he would bar a DWP request for a $1,013 payment for a luncheon at the exclusive Jonathan Club before first calling DWP management, was not immediately available for comment.
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