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Tomball council reviews wholesale rewrite of code of ethics, debates censure thresholds and public‑comment limits
Summary
Council members reviewed a draft replacement for the city’s 1993 ethics policy and rules of order, discussed attendance, public‑comment enforcement, thresholds for censure and conflict/gift rules tied to Texas law, and directed staff to revise the draft and return it to a future workshop.
Tomball — The City Council spent the bulk of its April 21 workshop reviewing a proposed repeal‑and‑replace of the city’s 1993 code of ethics and related rules of order, debating how to handle attendance, public‑comment enforcement, censure thresholds and conflicts of interest.
The draft before council would replace the 1993 policy. City staff described highlighted changes in the packet and said the draft incorporates selected provisions of the older policy while aligning language with current state law. Councilmembers discussed several specific sections, asked for clarifications and asked staff to revise the draft for return to another workshop.
Key issues discussed included attendance rules (Section 5), clarifications on excused versus unexcused absences, additions pulled from the 1993 policy (Section 7), and how to apply the policy to boards and commissions. Council members…
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