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City of Richmond spent nearly half a million dollars on gift cards in 3 years - BC | Globalnews.ca

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City of Richmond spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on restaurant gift cards.

Results of a freedom of information request for the years 2022 , 2023 and 2024 returned 493 pages of documents.

Richmond employee said many cards were kept in a bowl and some were handed out for no particular reason.

Former British Columbia's former auditor general called the spending troubling.

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