Seaside City Council voted unanimously to spend $25,000 to continue a deep audit of councilmember spending and also halt future spending until the audit is over.City Attorney Don Freeman announced that councilmembers would turn in their city issued purchasing cards while the audit is being conducted.Back on September 19, city manager Craig Malin said councilmember Kayla Jones was the only councilmember with a city issued purchasing card.Jones' spending on that card has raised questions from residents and is in part why the city has launched this audit that will review all councilmember spending dating back to July of 2015.Jones spent more than $20,000 on travel and childcare since January of 2017 and it's been the subject of criticism from residents. Jones defended her spending during Thursday's meeting saying, "all of my travel is legitimate." Also saying that all of her travel is documented. However, according to this 238 page report, Jones did make purchases on her city issued purchasing card without providing receipts.Jones also says her spending saves the city money as they no longer have to pay $24,000 a year for lobbyist.The biggest expense of Jones' travel is the nearly $12,000 in childcare. Jones paid the childcare to three people: Michele Saleh, Bree Jones, and Dee Russo.Family care reimbursement was unanimously approved by council in 2017."The family care budget that was set, I was told repeatedly that if I were to go over budget that was fine, we would go into the general fund and no other councilmember was using the family care budget at the time," Jones said Thursday. "If that was wrong at the time then that would be for staff to put a stop to, not me. I've asked I was given more. If I was not allowed to have this family care budget, there is so much I would not be able to serve."Part of Jones' travel includes going to Texas to interview then candidate and now police chief Abdul Pridgen, going to the California League of Cities on behalf of Seaside, traveling to Hawaii for a grant writing seminar and traveling to Southern California for a women’s conference in Disney.Jones said Thursday that she continually asked city staff during her traveling if there was ever a problem.Freeman said the audit will look into whether any of Jones' expenses or any city councilmember's expenses violated city policy. The audit will also make suggestions to change policies moving forward.Something even Jones said needs to be looked into while "no one has done anything intentionally wrong, so let's fix this. My understanding is yes, that we probably should have a better family care policy."Freeman said the audit will be complete in 30-45 days and will be made available to the public.