CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- When the CEO and chairman of the Mecklenburg Liquor Board went to Myrtle Beach, the I-team asked for the receipts under the state's open records law.
Turns out the ABC board is spending a lot less of your money.
Liquor boards from all across North Carolina went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for their annual meeting.
"We wanted someplace that's big enough where we could house everybody under one roof, and there's not that many, and there's none on the North Carolina coast," says Mike Myrick with the NC ABC Boards.
So the ABC boards met at the Mariott Grand Dunes instead of having the conference in Raleigh, Greensboro or Charlotte.
How much did it cost Mecklenburg County?
According to records, Mecklenburg's CEO Paul Stroup stayed in a cheaper hotel, opting for the Hampton Inn over the more expensive conference hotel.
Board chairman Cleve Edwards paid for his own hotel.
Paul Stroup did buy one beer, a Dos Equis, but he paid for it according to the records obtained by the I-team.
Stroup wrote a check for three dollars and thirty five cents reimbursing the public for the cost of the beer.
It appears there is a different way of doing business at the ABC board after NewsChannel 36's reporting.
