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Maplewood staff present revisions to council and boards ethics codes; council asks clarifying edits
Summary
City attorney presented proposed revisions to the city's council and boards-and-commissions codes of ethics to clarify duties, add an initial review step and create a path for independent investigation; councilmembers asked for explicit language saying the city council would impose discipline for boards and commissions.
Maplewood's city attorney presented proposed revisions to the council and boards-and-commissions ethics codes at the Sept. 9 work session, saying the draft aims to simplify language and add a clearer complaint process that includes an initial review and possible independent investigation. "We tried to ... create language ... more understandable language," the city attorney said, describing the edits.
The draft would add a step for an initial review, possibly handled by the city attorney, and if the…
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