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Article: Yakima ethics code proposals: limit to council, screen claims
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- August 18, 2009
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A proposed Yakima City Council ethics code would be limited to
members of the council and complaints would be screened in closed-
door executive sessions, a council subcommittee decided Monday.
Wary of creating burdensome regulations and duplicating state
law, the council's Rules and Procedures Committee began hashing out
an ethics code that was first proposed by Councilwoman Sonia
Rodriguez earlier this summer.
Council members asked assistant city attorney Jim Mitchell to
begin drafting guidelines similar to the ethics code used by the
U.S. House of Representatives. The committee -- composed of
Rodriguez, Micah Cawley and Bill Lover -- agreed that only members
of the City Council, and not ...