Mandeville Mayor Charged City To Attend French Quarter Wedding
by Cindy Chang - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

On June 19, 2004, Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price drove his white city-owned Ford Expedition across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway to attend a wedding at the swanky Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter.

The bride was Jayme Meyer, whose father, Rick Meyer, was Mandeville's designated engineer and the mayor's good friend.

At the hotel, Price met two colleagues, Finance Director Milton Stiebing and then-Public Works Director Joe Mistich. Each man parked his car in the hotel garage for the night at a cost of $32 per vehicle.

In addition to eating and drinking at the wedding, the trio racked up a $228 bill at the hotel bar and nearly $400 on three rooms at the Sonesta.

Price charged the $746 total to his city credit card, telling the finance department that the wedding was a "city function." The mayor has not reimbursed the city, although Stiebing has paid back his portion of the bill.