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Rules committee presses chief legal officer over who will draft ethics memo; Hodges retained but matter deferred
Summary
Council members pressed the city’s chief legal officer over whom his office selected to draft an exhibit or ethics memo tied to a resolution about an alleged incident; concerns about appearance of impropriety prompted requests to explore alternate counsel.
An extended Rules Committee discussion on Aug. 4 focused on who should draft an exhibit or memo tied to a resolution about an alleged incident involving city legal staff. Council Member Mike Gay asked for the item to be deferred so the committee could consider whether the city’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) or an independent attorney should prepare the document.
Gay said he worried about the appearance of partiality because the attorney the OGC proposed, Ms. Hodges, has worked with the city and in some cases is under contract to the OGC. “I feel like we…
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