Labour councillors have demanded answers over £50,000 allocated to the leader’s physiotherapist as part of a contract for fitness sessions.
Council documents state that £50,000 for a contract worth up to £115,000 came from the Your Money fund, which leader Michael Jones controlled.
But the council has insisted the payments were made after the Your Money fund closed on March 31 and had been incorrectly labelled.
He said the money came from the Community Investment Reserve which he had no control over.
But the Labour group are calling for answers over the issue saying that the contract was signed off on March 13 while the Your Money fund closed on March 31.
Coun Sam Corcoran said: “Council reports show the money was paid out of the Your Money fund.
“If this is an unfortunate administrative error, clear documentary evidence must be produced to show where the funding for the contract was to come from when it was signed in March.
“Given the contract was signed on 13 March, before 31 March, the council leader had control of the Your Money fund when the contract was signed.”
In a statement to the Express last week, Cheshire East Council’s chief executive Mike Suarez said: “I need to make it absolutely clear that the Community Investment Reserve and the Your Money Fund are completely separate.
“Any reference to the Your Money Fund in future correspondence beyond the expiry date of the fund (March 31, 2015) was simply a way to track the residual funds.
“We acknowledge that it is unfortunate that some of the paperwork associated with the Community Investment Reserve does make reference to the Your Money Fund, but this is a simple administrative error and nothing more.”
