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Council begins fact-finding on complaints against Mayor Sipe, transfers presiding authority
Summary
Council moved through a due-process step on complaints arising from a July memorandum, asked the mayor to respond and voted to transfer presiding authority to Councilor Wheeler; council scheduled a special follow-up meeting to deliberate further.
At a public fact-finding session on Dec. 3, the Umatilla City Council opened the next step in a multi-part complaint process concerning conduct by Mayor Sipe. The city attorney summarized four discrete complaints from a July 11 memorandum and allowed the mayor to present his response; the meeting was limited to fact-finding rather than deliberation.
The complaints summarized for the mayor to address included allegations that he had attempted to influence the city manager regarding a general-obligation bond…
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