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Audit committee plans redline of ethics ordinance and explores anonymous reporting link to state comptroller
Summary
Committee members discussed proposed ethics‑ordinance changes (including adding grandchildren to covered relationships), reactivated the ethics committee with new appointments, and considered using the Tennessee Comptroller fraud/waste website as an anonymous reporting avenue while HR described internal complaint processes.
The Jackson City Audit Committee discussed proposed amendments to the city’s ethics ordinance, options for anonymous reporting, and steps to reactivate an ethics committee that now has six active members.
Attorney Teresa Luna noted three proposed changes from the audit committee to the ethics ordinance and said the first would expand covered relationships to include grandchildren; she said the two other proposed changes had already been addressed in the ethics committee's policy and procedures. Luna also reminded the committee that "the current ethics ordinance does not permit anonymity in the complaint process." She said enabling anonymity would require a formal recommendation to the City Council to amend the ordinance and that the committee had agreed to…
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