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Skagway committee begins drafting conflict-of-interest ordinance, weighing ethics board and penalties
Summary
Committee members discussed concepts for ordinance 25x6 to amend SMC chapter 3 on conflicts of interest, including a possible one-year post-employment restriction, objective monetary thresholds, an ethics committee model and complaint review involving the clerk and municipal attorney.
The Civic Affairs Committee began substantive work on an ordinance to strengthen conflict-of-interest rules on Feb. 26, with members debating definitions, enforcement mechanisms and the practicality of strict rules in a small municipality.
The Chair told the committee the ordinance grew from a concern that an assembly member could create a municipal job, move to put the position in the budget, resign and then apply for the position. "What started this in my world was... prevent assembly members from being a part of creating a job... and then promptly resigning and then applying for that job," the Chair said, explaining why the committee is…
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