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Columbus Council facing new ethic guidelines?
Fran Ryan sworn in today as newest Council member.
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New ethical guidelines are being proposed by Columbus City Council this week, Columbus Council President Andrew Ginther announced on Monday.
Ginther made the announcement at a Columbus Rotary meeting, where he spoke about his bid for Columbus mayor. Ginther, though, did not elaborate on specifics, nor would he provide details on where the new guidelines would be announced.
His announcement follows a call for ethics review that he made two weeks ago. Ethics reform has also been called for by his political opponent, Sheriff Zach Scott.
When asked what his new proposed guidelines aim to accomplish, Ginther replied, "the ability to put tougher ethics laws on the books, we passed those in July. We also got the ability to do additional ethics disclosure. One of the things I mentioned before when we talked about this was looking into the lobbyist registration."
Both mayoral candidates called for new ethic guidelines for council members amid a FBI investigation into alleged corruption at Columbus City Hall and after one of Columbus council member resigned.
A former CEO for red light camera company Redflex pled guilty in June to attempting to bribe a Columbus City official. Then in August, Councilmember Michelle Mills resigned her position after news reports surfaced that she received tickets to the 2014 Big 10 Football Championship Game from the same lobbyist who represented Redflex.
Fran Ryan is scheduled to be sworn in Monday night to replace Michelle Mills on the council at the council meeting.
