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  1. Winter Reading: Switch IV - Ethics Reform

    ... The Heart of Change that the sequence of change is not analyze-think-change, which is how most people (including me) try to bring ... they did. It wouldn't be a bad idea for officials to ask members of the community to say how they feel every time they learn of ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  2. Advice on Ethics Advice Falls on Deaf Ears

    ... opinion. The request involved the appropriateness of council members affiliated with a church participating in a matter that ... officials made it much more complicated than it had to be. Not only did the ethics board, mayor, and council show a lack of understanding ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  3. Ethics Commissions

    ... Commission member may make campaign contributions but may not participate in any election campaign. 3. Of the regular membership of ... members. Most local governments allow the mayor or council, or both, to select the members. They may do the right thing, but they ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2009-06-09 06:02 - 5 comments

  4. City Ethics Support

    ... Use this style to notify your visitors of downloadable content and files. To use this style, enclose your text within the following ... action can be adequately explained on ethical grounds, it is not a responsible act The following is an example of a blockquote ...

    donmc - 2015-04-28 15:55

  5. Drupal post typography

    ... Use this style to notify your vistors of downloadable content and files. To use this style, enclose your text within the following ... class="settings">...</p> The following is an example of a blockquote (use <blockquote>Your Quote</blockquote>): Treading the soil ...

    donmc - 2010-01-22 11:24 - 0 comments

  6. Font Sizes - a test...

    ... 4 Heading level 5 Heading level 6 This is a test of the "Paragraph" setting in this template. This is Cited text... This is Code Numbering ...

    donmc - 2012-07-26 17:40

  7. Term Limits and the Poor Handling of a Conflict in Pierce County, WA

    ... too, without having to raise taxes (the districts do it, not the politicians) or having to take away money from other services in ... Into this situation walks Terry Lee, who became a county council member in 2003 and could not run in 2010. According to an article in ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  8. Lewis Hyde's New Observations on Civic Virtue, Mixing Values, and the Freedom to Listen

    ... volunteers, and that the extension of the right to vote does not necessarily change the civic duties of citizenship. Here's a nice ... government able to defend itself against the avarice of its members." Back in colonial America there were already those effectively ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

  9. Full Text of Model Ethics Code

    ... family, friends, or business associates; and that they do not, directly or indirectly, in a positive or negative sense, treat anyone ... or even multiple offices held by an individual, especially a council member, so that this problem could only arise with respect to members ...

    donmc - 2015-08-18 14:41 - 0 comments

  10. Voiding Contracts, Transactions, and Permits Where There Is an Ethics Violation

    ... to act. But this is unusual. In fact, most jurisdictions do not expressly provide for the avoidance of permits, contracts, or other ... § 4), for example, automatically voids any contract where a council member had a conflict of interest. New York State's ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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