Part 5 in a 11-part blog series looking at questionable expenses of several government employees, as revealed by CTF Freedom of Information requests.
In 2011/12, Dana Hayden was a deputy minister in the B.C. government, pulling down $271,336. Today, she works at PavCo as the CEO and president. We don’t know her salary yet, but her predecessor made more than half a million bucks the year before, so Dana is doing okay.
Her expenses, however, are through the roof.
From September through February, taxpayers paid $2,200 a month for her accommodation rent (p. 1-2), along with thousands more in per-diems. We even paid for her parking at Victoria Airport ($387 from Oct. 18 to Dec. 6, according to p. 3, and $270 from Dec. 12 to Feb. 14, according to p. 1) so she could fly over and work in Vancouver.
In August, she charged taxpayers $3,505.70 in accommodations, per-diems, and parking (p. 4). Plus there are thousands more in flights between Vancouver and Victoria. Not a terribly auspicious start to Hayden’s PavCo career.
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