The Canton Community Improvement Corp. board will meet Friday to discuss the mayors improper use of a credit card tied to the economic development group.

The seven-member board is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. in the conference room on the eighth floor of City Hall.

Mayor William J. Healy II improperly used a CIC credit card 16 times between July 7 and Aug. 7, according to credit-card statements obtained through a public-records request.

Healy said he mistakenly used the CIC credit card one of three issued and got it mixed up with his personal credit cards. Healy said he was embarrassed by the misstep. In recent weeks, the misuse was discovered by an employee of the community development department. Healy said he wrote checks soon after to KeyBank (for the Platinum Business MasterCard) to cover personal expenses a check for $534.39 and another for $72.03. Healy said the payments also covered a $39 late fee incurred on the credit card.

Purchases were made at several businesses, including Subway restaurant, Dillards, Friendlys Ice Cream, Macys, Speedway, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, Johns Grille, Sunoco, Pat Catans and Sams Club.

BOARD MEETING

The CIC board will review how the credit-card account and the policy regulating its use were established without the oversight of the full seven members, said Law Director Joseph Martuccio.

Also, the board has to analyze those transactions and determine which were properly reimbursable and ratify those, he said.

Tom Burns, an assistant city law director who represents the CIC, believes the credit card account was established without the necessary board approval.

The board never formally was made aware of the existence of the three credit cards and did not approve the policy, he said.

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CIC to meet to review Healy's credit-card transactions