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Marietta council directs ethics committee to refine code, requests clean draft after debate on disclosure amounts and appeals
Summary
After a lengthy discussion on disclosure thresholds, definition of constructive knowledge, and whether the ethics committee should render punishments, the council asked the committee and city attorney to return with a clean revised ethics ordinance and a standalone provision addressing election qualifying-period complaints.
The Marietta City Council spent substantial time reviewing recommendations from the ethics committee and its counsel about updating the cityethics ordinance, directing the committee to return with a revised, clean draft and additional clarity on several points including disclosure thresholds, the knowledge standard for conflicts, and appeals from committee findings.
Julie Livingston, who introduced the committee's work at the meeting, said the committee had produced a redline but had been asked to look for simpler language used by other Georgia cities. Council members pressed for a clearer statement of purpose, tighter definitions, and…
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