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Committee debates vendor disclosure rule; ordinance tabled for redrafting
Summary
Trustees discussed a proposed amendment to the procurement/ethics code requiring vendors to disclose business relationships with officials and senior staff; after questions about scope, threshold and confidentiality the committee voted to table the item for redrafting.
The Committee of the Whole discussed a proposed ordinance to amend Title 1, Chapter 16 of the municipal code to require vendors to disclose business relationships with elected officials, the village manager and department directors. Trustees debated the scope, lookback period and monetary threshold before tabling the ordinance for further revision.
The proposal would broaden existing ethics disclosures so vendors, as well as officials, would report certain business ties. Under the draft, relationships within the last 10 years that exceed a monetary threshold would be disclosed; the draft threshold was $2,500 but several trustees and staff urged raising it to a higher, more consistent level.
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