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Hearing Process
... writing, witnesses to testify and may compel production of documents and other effects as evidence, and failure to obey such subpoena ... of Research-Retired, City Ethics rwechsler@cityethics.org --- Log in or register to post ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-17 10:11 - 2 comments
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Summer Reading: Corruption and American Politics V - Ethical Leadership and Lobbyist-Campaign Consultants
... to local government ethics, but presidents, mayors, city managers, and other high-level local officials all have an important ... leadership of a president applies equally to a mayor or city manager: Presidents, no less than corporate executives, set the moral ... … When exposure was threatened, they destroyed official documents and lied to cabinet officials, to the public, and to elected ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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CRA Problems in Southern Florida
... renovating older downtown or residential areas." The usual term for such areas is "blighted area." CRAs are not meant for development of ... in the same breath. Please for the future include www.redevelopment.net as an educational resource. There is a lot of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Local Government Officials' Obligations with Respect to Federal Laws
... this phrase taken out for contract. The then assistant city manager of Monrovia said that the city always discusses the possibility of ... with government), (ii) officials' obligation to make their documents and statements fully truthful, and (iii) officials' obligation to be ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Atlantic City Council Votes to Abolish the City's Ethics Board
Body: A city full of casinos has no need for an ethics board, right? Well, according to an article in yesterday's Press of Atlantic City , that's the decision the Atlantic City council made last week. This decision (a second vote is required for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Ethics Officer Worth Emulating
... find a newspaper article that truly appreciates the work a city ethics officer does. So I'm including the entire article below. It's ... select areas. She’s locked into the job for a three-year term unless the nine-member ethics commission votes to remove her “for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2013-01-17 08:58 - 0 comments
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Officials Accepting Tickets to Events Where They Have a Ceremonial Function
... found in many local government ethics codes (but not the City Ethics Model Code ). However, it is rarely defined except, occasionally, in advisory opinions. The term is generally used to exclude certain gifts from being either disclosed or ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A City Attorney Providing Ethics Advice in a Big City Is Indefensible
... are willing to set up to justify the participation of a city attorney in the ethics program of a large city or county that has sufficient resources to hire an ethics commission staff ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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HONOLULU, HI
... Originally governed by a Board of Supervisors, the City & County of Honolulu is administered under a mayor-council system of ... The Mayor is elected on a non-partisan basis to a four-year term. The Honolulu City Council is the unicameral legislative body. ...
donmc - 2006-06-24 16:27 - 0 comments
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When Voting Is Damaging, No Matter What the Ethics Code Says
... Morning Journal , the Law Director of Lorain, OH (a city of 70,000), advising a council member, said, “If his employer had a ... by the state ethics law . That law does not include the term "financial interest," nor does it talk in terms of direct and indirect ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
