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Council deadlocks on housing-authority CEO's planning-and-zoning nomination amid ethics disclosure questions
Summary
A nomination for the Planning and Zoning Commission prompted council debate about the City of Denton ethics ordinance and required disclosures. The appointment vote tied 3–3 and will return to a future meeting after council requested more information about potential conflicts.
The City Council considered a nomination on April 1 to appoint the executive director of a local housing authority to the City of Denton Planning and Zoning Commission and became deadlocked after hours of discussion over ethics-disclosure rules.
Council Member Jester (listed in the meeting transcript as raising the issue) audited the nomination backup and asked why the packet did not include the disclosures the city’s ethics ordinance requires when a newly appointed city official may have a conflict of interest. The ordinance language discussed at the meeting (transcript citations: sections 2-272 and 2-273 as read during debate) requires a city official who has a conflicting interest in a pending matter to file a disclosure with the city auditor covering the prior calendar year and up to the date…
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