Kathleen Imhoff, the Lexington Public Library’s chief executive officer, spent more than $134,000 in five years on national and international travel, scores of meals at upscale Lexington restaurants, gifts for employees and board members, and other items, mostly on her library credit card.
Imhoff and her superiors on the library board of trustees defend her spending as appropriate for a high-profile businesswoman running a $15 million-a-year institution.
“The board hired me for several reasons, and among those was to increase library usage, to get the library more known in the community and to be an ambassador for the library, regionally, nationally and internationally,” said Imhoff, 63, in a recent interview. Lexington Herald-Leader has the story.
Monday follow-up in the Leader: “The Lexington Public Library is imposing new restrictions on the use of library credit cards after a Herald-Leader examination of its spending.”
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