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Magliocca also expensed slightly more than $200 for another June 1 meal where he named the guests as Morinville Coun. Rebecca Balanko and a person listed as “M. Strandlund” from a company called Superior Roads.

Balanko previously told Postmedia she never sat down with Magliocca, and Marjorie Strandlund, an employee of the Regina-based company Superior Roads Solutions, said Friday that she doesn’t recall eating with the councillor either. She was at the FCM trade show to market the company’s one-person-operated pothole filler, but she said she doesn’t typically dine with councillors attending municipal conferences, and none of the dozen employees at the company have a name similar to hers.

“At some of the conferences I go to, we would go out with a distributor if they’re at the same show,” she said. “Usually, the attendees (at FCM) go off — they have such a full calendar. They’re doing their thing, and the exhibitors do their thing.”

According to the timestamp on the receipt Magliocca submitted for the meal, it was printed just before 8 p.m. But Strandlund said her flight out of Quebec City left that evening around 8:30 p.m.

Under council policy, travel expenses, including hosting expenses, must be clearly related to city business and councillors “are required to provide the name of the party hosted.”

Magliocca previously said he made “errors” documenting his expenses because he mixed up business cards he collected at FCM. He also said he personally paid back about $2,100 of his FCM costs, which, including hotel and flights, totalled about $6,400.