Travel Expenses Report
From: To: Friday, August 1, 2025 Sunday, August 31, 2025
Report Generated: Friday, September 12, 2025 1:19:49 PM
Department: Fire
Employee Dixon, John
Approving Director Stobart, Kirk
Destination
Depature Date
Osage Beach, MO, United States
Return Date August 12, 2025 August 15, 2025
Purpose
Missouri Fire Marshals Conference
How did the travel apply to the job?
Allows IFD personnel to attend large scale hands on training in various fire scenarios with the top instructors in the fire service.
How did training add value to the city?
Allows IFD personnel to attend large scale hands on training in various fire scenarios with the top instructors in the fire service.
General comments:
Department: Fire
Employee Michel, Eric
Approving Director Stobart, Kirk
Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Purpose
Jefferson City, MO, United States
August 11, 2025
August 13, 2025
Fire Investigation: Fire as a Weapon
How did the travel apply to the job?
Allows IFD personnel to attend large scale hands on training in various fire scenarios with the top instructors in the fire service.
How did training add value to the city?
Allows IFD personnel to attend large scale hands on training in various fire scenarios with the top instructors in the fire service.
General comments:
Department: Municipal Services
Employee Dickey, Ryan
Approving Director Reynolds, Lisa
Destination
Depature Date
Chicago, IL, United States
August 18, 2025
August 20, 2025
Purpose
Will be attending the annual public works conference (PWX 2025) in Chicago as a Municipal Services - Engineering Division representative. The knowledge, connections, and experience gained here will improve my ability to deliver capital improvement projects that are up-to-date with the latest best practices and materials the US has to offer.
How did the travel apply to the job?
Traveled to the Public Works Expo in order to 1) get exposed to new processes and technologies that can be applied to City projects, 2) attended lectures by experts on topics that could benefit the City by streamlining programs while also making space for significant cost savings, and 3) established (or deepened) relationships with other public works workers across the KC metro, aiding our ability to cooperate with, or learn from, our neighbors.
How did training add value to the city?
Attended some lectures with potential to add value to programs in Municipal Services, particularly useful conversations include using vibroacoustics to detect weak (or even leaking) areas of water main and another concerning the implementation of the EPA Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, which will be a massive and unique challenge for the City over the next decade. Also met several vendors who have products that could address some issues on capital improvement projects or maintenance that I may not have encountered otherwise. Made peer-to-peer connections with other public works officials from Raytown, Liberty, Kansas City, Blue Springs, Oak Grove, Clay County, former Independence employees, and likely more I'm not recalling at the moment. This could lead to more education opportunities, or improved inter-agency cooperation down the road, that may have not been possible otherwise.
General comments:
I expected this conference to be educational and good for making some new relationships, but it far exceeded my expectations. I'm very, very grateful I got to attend.
Department: Police
Employee Bennett, Christopher
Approving Director Petersen, Jason
Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Purpose
Tactical Medicine
Johnston, IA, United States
August 4, 2025
August 6, 2025
This course does not have any tuition or registration fees. Lodging is provided at no cost.
How did the travel apply to the job?
Tactical Medicine for operational lever first responder medical support.
How did training add value to the city?
This is a required training to be activated for the SWAT medic position.
General comments:
Attendees were under the impression that the kitchen was open and meals were provided with this training and did not request per diem. When they arrived, the kitchen was not open so they paid for their meals themselves and requested per diem when they returned. Their request was approved. The per diem will be paid via payroll.
Department: Police
Employee Brintnall, Aaron
Approving Director Petersen, Jason
Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Purpose
Tactical Medicine
Johnston, IA, United States
August 4, 2025
August 6, 2025
This course does not have any tuition or registration fees. Lodging is provided at no cost.
How did the travel apply to the job?
Tactical Medicine for operational lever first responder medical support.
How did training add value to the city?
This is a required training to be activated for the SWAT medic position.
General comments:
Attendees were under the impression that the kitchen was open and meals were provided with this training and did not request per diem. When they arrived, the kitchen was not open so they paid for their meals themselves and requested per diem when they returned. Their request was approved. The per diem will be paid via payroll.
Fuel was paid for with city issued p-card.
Department: Police
Employee Romero, Rick
Approving Director Petersen, Jason
Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Purpose
Anaheim, CA, United States
August 10, 2025 August 13, 2025
2025 CIT International Conference
How did the travel apply to the job?
Dealing with mental health.
How did training add value to the city?
Co-responder training.
General comments:
Registration, airfare, hotel and airport parking in KC were all paid for with city issued p-card.
Two Lyft charges were paid for personally by Officer Romero and will need to be reimbursed.
All expenses will be reimbursed by MARC.
Department: Power & Light
Employee Benedict, Daniel
Approving
Director Hegendeffer, Joseph
This is a great conference that has technical learning of SEL products and techniques that help us stay up-to-date with current technology. It is also a great opportunity to network with other utilities and SEL representatives and ask how they are solving similar issues that we currently face.
Note: Driving I did mileage at the rate in that form down and back 176 miles each way. 176*2*.67=236.00 plus $50.00 in gas roundtrip for transportation costs.
How did the travel apply to the job?
This is a great conference that has technical learning of SEL products and techniques that help us stay up-to-date with current technology. It is also a great opportunity to network with other utilities and SEL representatives and ask how they are solving similar issues that we currently face.
How did training add value to the city?
By staying current on the offerings from this vendor it allows us to solve problems in a more cost efficient manner. It also allows us to plan for the future and spend less money by forecasting what will be needed so expenditures are reduced.
General comments:
As always this trip proves to be extremely beneficial in realizing where the industry is headed but also the training helps us better utilize our existing products to solve issues without spending more money.
Department: Power & Light
Employee Caume, Micahael
Approving Director Hegendeffer, Joseph
Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Branson, MO, United States
August 4, 2025
August 7, 2025
Purpose
To stay current on relay solutions to utility problems while also learning how to better leverage our existing relay infrastructure to creatively solve existing problems.
How did the travel apply to the job?
Attended I-44 Interactive Seminar in Branson MO.
How did training add value to the city?
This training will help me implement and diagnose relaying schemes in a more efficient manner thus saving the city time and effort. It should also increase our reliability of power by allowing us to implement faster and better relay schemes going forward.
General comments:
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Department: Power & Light
Employee Donner Jr, Curtis
Approving Director Hegendeffer, Joseph
Destination
Depature Date
Branson, MO, United States
Return Date August 4, 2025 August 7, 2025
Purpose
SEL I-44 Conference
How did the travel apply to the job?
This conference/workshop was for System Protection Relay, Troubleshooting and Event Analysis
How did training add value to the city?
This training was important in order to effectively communicate with System Protection Engineer staff and Relay Techs and to have an in depth understanding of how System Protection is associated with IPL Transmission and Distribution Systems
General comments:
I very much enjoyed the Conference/Workshops associated with Substation System Protection
Department: Power & Light
Employee
Approving
Zahid, Sultan
Director Hegendeffer, Joseph
Branson, MO, United States Destination
Depature Date
Return Date
Purpose
August 4, 2025
August 7, 2025
$1,601.48
This is a great conference that has technical learning of SEL products and techniques that help us stay up-to-date with current technology. It is also a great opportunity to network with other utilities and SEL representatives and ask how they are solving similar issues that we currently face.
Note: Driving I did mileage at the rate in that form down and back 176 miles each way. 176*2*.67=236.00 plus $50.00 in gas roundtrip for transportation costs.
How did the travel apply to the job?
It was the seminar regarding the SEL relays as we use SEL relays. It was a healthy trip and a great opportunity to learn.
How did training add value to the city?
the value it adds to the city is , I come to know about the new and upgraded products/relays of SEL, so now I can plan accordingly which product I should use and install to get the customers power without any problem and interruption.
General comments:
it was overall a great trip. More of these trips should be arranged so that we can add value to city and provide better customer services.