Little light shed on some of council’s smaller bills

A $33 bill for dry cleaning is one of the many small taxpayer-paid bills rung up by the Mass Cultural Council that arts officials refuse to explain.

The dry cleaning bill was from Dependable Cleaners, which has two locations on Newbury Street near the council’s St. James Avenue offices in the Back Bay.

Council spokesman Greg Liakos, whose pay was recently hiked to $107,000 a year, is no longer taking questions from the Herald.

“The Mass Cultural Council has no further comment on the public records that we have provided to the Boston Herald. We will gladly provide additional public records if requested,” Liakos said in an email.

Other small P-card bills include $32.90 from a T-shirt printing store; $34.22 from Dunkin Donuts; $31.12 for an Uber ride; $5.88 for “fines”; $4.49 from Target; $2.75 for parking meters; and, 60 cents to park in Pittsfield.

The last time the cultural council was audited was in 2015, when they were knocked for “inaccurate” or “not supported” documentation.

The audit, from July 2014 to June 2015, added the council was “not ensuring that its capital assets are properly safeguarded against loss, theft, and misuse and that its inventory records are complete and accurate.”

The Auditor’s Office did not divulge last night if the Mass Cultural Council is in line for an updated audit, saying audits are not announced ahead of time.