Golf outing, polo shirts, parking and even tanning among disbursements

The reams of documents, contracts, bank statements and invoices handed over to The Gazette on Thursday show money was disbursed for expenses large and small. Here are a few examples:

The FINA organizing commit

tee gave $613,378.35 in loans to a company called Mondial des Jeux et Sports Traditionnels, which was headquartered in the same office as ISM.

A cheque for $1,200 was written to the Guzzo Spring Classic Golf Tournament on May 27, 2003 for Roger Lagaré and Marco Veilleux, listed as being from Montreal 2005 and two guests to golf and dine. In 2004, $1,041.32 was spent on 36 polo shirts embroidered with the FINA Montreal 2005 logo supplied by Le Groupe Signa Marketing, which was also in talks with Montreal 2005 to supply and run souvenir stands during the aquatics event. Written by hand on the invoice is “clothes for the office personnel for Indianapolis” – a reference to the 15th World Sports Medicine Congress FINA held that year.

In September 2004, Montreal 2005 paid out $989.20 to Spots Parking for reserved unreserved parking spaces at 1010 de la Gauchetière W., the building where the offices were housed. In October they spent $494.60 and in November $741.90.

In December 2004, $2,329.25 was charged to Montréal 2005 by Famille Bois-vert in Drummondville for the moving of nine trees. The handwritten bill from the nursery states the trees were ordered removed by Cogiscène for an address in Ste. Julie. That is crossed out and replaced with Montréal 2005, also by hand.

On March 2005, the FINA organizing committee paid $13,644 to acquire all the “computer and electronic equipment, as well as office furniture from Internationaux de sports de Montréal.

Diane Dupuis, described as a volunteer, submitted a receipt for $14 from Bronzages Soleil Le Vent in Longueuil on Feb. 28, 2005.