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Charter commission tables ethics-review amendment after debate over mayor appointments and enforcement
Summary
The Clallam County Charter Review Commission debated a proposed ethics-review board amendment for more than an hour before voting to send the measure back to committee for further work, citing unresolved issues about appointments, term lengths, enforcement and legal exposure.
The Clallam County Charter Review Commission voted on a motion to table and return a proposed ethics-review board amendment to committee after lengthy discussion about how members would be appointed, whether findings would carry enforceable penalties and how the measure should appear to voters.
Commissioner Cameron, who presented the rewritten amendment, moved to advance the language to the next steps of the charter process, saying, "I will move that we adopt the amendment as it's written in the email there. Step 2." Commissioners then debated whether the amendment’s short, summary wording left important implementation details unresolved.
Why it matters: commissioners said the question is not whether to create oversight but how to do it without creating an unworkable,…
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