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Council debates creating formal ethics/code-of-conduct committee; attorney to draft ordinance language
Summary
Council members discussed forming a formal commission or committee to address behavioral and ethics complaints, reviewed existing state ethics provisions (noting penalties and references to section 1-19), and requested the city attorney draft language to codify a commission and a code of conduct for future action.
City council members debated forming a formal committee or commission to address conduct and ethics concerns, and asked the city attorney to draft code language and a commission structure for future council consideration.
Councilmember Hovlett, who reopened the topic after it was tabled at an earlier meeting, reviewed existing mechanisms and said a state ethics framework already exists that addresses campaign violations and certain penalties. “There are already hefty fines in there,” Hovlett said, citing penalty language in the state…
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