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Seattle committee advances consultant-ethics ordinance with one-year cooling-off rule
Summary
The Governance, Accountability and Economic Development Committee adopted a substitute to council bill 121,130 that narrows reporting, removes public posting requirements and establishes a one-year cooling-off period barring concurrent city contracts and political consulting; the substitute passed 3–1 with one abstention and will go to full council.
Seattle’s Governance, Accountability and Economic Development Committee on Dec. 11 voted to advance an amended ethics ordinance aimed at limiting conflicts by political consultants who also contract with the city.
The committee adopted substitute version D4 of council bill 121,130, which narrows the ordinance’s scope to compensated political consultants, removes several proposed public reporting requirements and creates a one-year cooling-off period between city contracting work and political consulting for city election campaigns. "This legislation is really about getting at the insider information that blurs the line between politics and policy at City Hall,"…
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