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Council endorses stronger ethics and training language; asks staff to reconcile with state rules
Summary
Council members signaled support for tightening ethics and training language in the charter review draft but asked staff to ensure proposed local rules align with Ohio ethics and Open Meetings (sunshine) laws and to clarify whether training may be delegated or must be personal.
Cleveland Heights council and the Charter Review Commission reviewed proposed Article 10 language that would require ethics training for elected officials and city employees and reference Ohio's state ethics law as the baseline for local standards.
What the draft says and council's concerns
- The commission proposed that city officials must participate in ethics and public-meetings training and that the charter should reference the Ohio statutory…
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