Council debates transparency, accountability ordinance; staff to refine definitions and enforcement options
Councilors and staff discussed a draft 'transparency and accountability' ordinance designed to set guardrails on council interactions with staff and outside parties. Members sought clearer definitions of 'direction to staff,' protections for department heads, and whether the policy should be an ordinance, resolution, or governance‑manual provision.
The full story
Councilors spent a lengthy portion of the Feb. 3 meeting reviewing a draft Transparency and Accountability Act intended to set rules around elected officials’ communications and prevent unilateral directions to staff.
Sign up to keep reading.
Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.
or