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Commission advances ethics chapter language, approves staffing and authority to hire outside counsel
Summary
The commission approved staffing language for a standalone Office of Municipal Ethics, restored and clarified membership conflict rules, and added language authorizing the ethics commission to retain independent outside counsel; commissioners debated whether to require a lawyer as a member.
The Bridgeport Charter Revision Commission took several substantive steps on the proposed ethics chapter during the meeting, approving staffing language, restoring authority for the municipal ethics director to pursue unpaid fines, clarifying membership disqualifications, and adopting language allowing the ethics commission to retain independent outside counsel.
On staffing, the commission approved consolidated language that places a director for the Office of Municipal Ethics in unclassified civil service and charges the director with day-to-day management, subject to available funding and civil service provisions. Commissioners voted to accept the…
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