In an email on Jan. 22, 2015, she told a church leader to “let me know if you need anything from me today. I will be at my desk most of the day.”

Later that day, she sent and received 11 emails about a sandwich order for the church leadership event’s lunch.

She sent and received an additional 45 emails in the lead-up to the 2016 event.

In other emails, she helped sort out an issue with a lease to a day care facility the church rented space to, as well as an easement related to the construction of the church’s Chesterfield facility.

Jones, copied on several of these emails, also was included on emails to Adediran about the church construction.

Jones’ press secretary, Tammy Hawley, said city policy allows employees to engage in limited personal communication during work hours.

“It’s just not reasonable in today’s environment to expect not to have some overlap,” said Hawley, who explained that Jones wouldn’t be looking at Branch’s emails with a critical eye because their communication was limited and she was not a city employee.

“He wouldn’t be looking at it like, ‘You should be at work,’ ” she said.