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Council adopts updated ethics policy with new removal option for elected members
Summary
The council adopted an updated city ethics policy that mirrors Montana law and added a council-approved amendment allowing removal of a council member by a supermajority (4 of 6, including the mayor) if the member refuses to resign after an ethics finding.
The Whitefish City Council adopted a revised city ethics policy on May 5 that mirrors Montana’s code of ethics for public officers and employees and added a council amendment providing a process to remove an elected member by supermajority.
Staff background: Angie, the staff lead on the rewrite, told the council the city’s policy dated from the late 1990s and that Montana law has changed since then. The draft policy tracked state law and incorporated council direction from two prior work…
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