WASHINGTON, D.C.
It appears the General Services Administration won’t be making a return trip to the posh M Resort near Las Vegas anytime soon.
On Monday, the same day GSA Administrator Martha Johnson fired two senior staffers and submitted her resignation, the agency canceled Opening Doors 2012-2013, a two-day small business conference series that was to be held at the same locale as the now-infamous Public Buildings Service 2010 Western Regions Conference that cost Johnson her job.
The GSA had planned to hold the Opening Doors event at the M Resort Sept. 5-6 as part of a larger Pacific Rim Region schedule that also featured events in Honolulu, Oakland, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.
The GSA’s Public Buildings Service racked up nearly $823,000 in costs associated with a 2010 conference it held at the M Resort, according to the details that came to light this week. Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini said in an introductory letter Wednesday as Johnson’s replacement that the GSA is now reviewing all of its planned and proposed conferences, is canceling a number of conferences that only or primarily involved internal staff, and is launching an evaluation of its conference and travel policies and business justification.
Courtesy of the Washington Business Journal �
