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Lancaster City committee gets administrative code update; resident urges ethics provisions be left to ethics commission
Summary
The Government Study Transition Committee heard a progress report on a consolidated administrative code, reviewed timelines for the new ethics commission and public engagement plans, and received a public comment urging that ethics-related provisions be developed by the ethics commission rather than included in the administrative code.
A staff member leading the administrative-code project updated Lancaster City’s Government Study Transition Committee on progress, timelines and public-engagement plans and said the city aims to adopt a comprehensive administrative code before the end of the year.
The update noted that draft sections covering powers of the city, council and administration; salaries of elected officials; budgets, finance and accounting; procurement and records retention were presented to council in work sessions on June 17 and July 15. The staff member said the committee will review a second set of sections — including organizational structure, boards and commissions, forfeiture of office and basic ethics-code placeholders — at upcoming work sessions on Aug. 19 and Sept. 16.
“The goal is still to adopt it before the end of the year, preferably in October if we can,” the staff member said. The staff…
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