Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson and five other city officials are going on a $17,000 trip to China that some City Council members are blasting. Tony Thomas says, he and other council members weren't told about the trip.
"Some people will call it a sight-seeing trip. Some people might call it information gathering," Thomas says. "But, I don't see anything productive coming out of going on the last few days of that trip."
The taxpayer-funded portion of the trip amounts to four days in Beijing, where the only official business is a meeting with Georgia economic development officials. Johnson and other officials could not be reached for comment.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Savannah officials' trip to China blasted
