City Council Minutes 1991 10 15 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

..., put it out for public hearing. If I am successful in convincing the Council to include it as an amendment, I am afraid it will look like I tried to manipulate the process such that the public didn't have the ability to comment on my amendments. Carnival: Is this something that needs to be done tonight? Can we not table this until we get some response to John's concerns whether the Ethics Committee felt like they were not appropriate... Sackett: They have responded to me and said they were not appropriate. Brand: The request is for you to put it out for public hearing. The co-chairs of the Ethic Committee are here, I think they might want to respond whether it needs to be done. It can be postponed if that is your decision. Carnival: I'm leaning towards allowing John's amendments to go through so that we can go through the public hearing process and then at the second reading either reamend back to the original ethics or accept the amendments that John is suggesting at final hearing. Szymanski: I would like to have time to study these changes, I go along with Randy. Davidson: I read your comments, John, there are some points to them. I also submitted comments that the Ethics Committee chose not to include, but I think the purpose of having a citizen's Ethics Committee was in fact to get the ethical standards of the community rather than just the ethical standards of the Council. If we wanted just the ethical standards of the Council then we ourselves should have just amended the ethics ordinance as it exists. Although, they did not accept my comments to the ordinance I am willing to accept it the way it is. As members of the community, they said that is what they felt their councilmembers and elected officials and appointees to City boards should be. Reading through the ordinance there are some things that I would just as soon be slightly different, but overall I don't see anything major in there that would be a hinderance to 12