Student Orders $91.63 Room Service. Charges MCPS Operating Budget.

Hilton room service

Once again, we thank NBC4 for making select Board of Education expense reports public. Included in those documents were the expense reports for 4 Student Members of the Board of Education.  One student member, John Mannes, submitted 62 pages of expenses for his one year in office.

Included in the expense reports of John Mannes was a receipt for room service at the Washington Hilton while attending the Federal Relations Network Legislative Conference. That's one of the Washington, DC meetings that Board of Education member Christopher Barclay also attended and stayed overnight at the Hilton.

While at the Hilton Mr. Mannes ordered room service for 2: strip steak and short ribs.  Cost of that meal for 2 was $91.63.

But, wait. It gets even better.  While at the conference at the Washington Hilton, Mr. Mannes traveled 4 miles back to the Maryland/D.C. border to eat at Maggiano's in Chevy Chase for $27.32.

And you paid for it all.