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# City Hall Department Heads Spent $19,849 on Conference Travel
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/on-sabbatical/
- Published: 2004-06-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:34:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

City Hall bosses spent $19,849 to travel to various conferences over the past 12 months. Here is how that spending broke down: James T. Butts Jr., Police Chief $4,869 Stephanie Negriff, Head of Big Blue Bus $3,649 Jeff Mathieu, Resource Management $2,905 Gordon Anderson, Assistant City Manager $1,816 Maria Stewart, City Clerk $1,324 Steve Stark, Finance Director $1,193 Suzanne Frick, Planning Director $1,057 Susan McCarthy, City Manager $965 Jim Hone, Fire Chief $808 Barbara Stinchfield, Community and Cultural Services $665 Karen Bancroft, Human Resources $576 Craig Perkins,Environmental and Public Works $21 Wini Allard, Librarian None reported Marsha Moutrie, City Attorney None reported

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 23, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)