Metro Council’s comprehensive ethics bill wasn’t on last night’s agenda, but sponsor David Briley says the measure could be back as early as the council’s next meeting on October 18th.
The bill was derailed a little over two weeks ago after several council members tried to tack on amendments that the bill’s sponsors said radically altered the spirit of the bill.
The biggest concern was over Councilman Randy Foster’s amendment to have the ethics board, which would oversee alleged infractions of the new ordinance, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council.
Ethics bill sponsor David Briley says he thinks a compromise can be reached.
“I think he understands my concern about it being a board that is partisan in the sense that the council appoints it. I understand his concern that the composition of the board as proposed has some special interests on it.”
Briley says all council members have until Friday to turn in any amendments to the bill. The measure will go into discussion next week and the compromise will be forwarded to the Ethics Task Force for approval. And then the bill will be put back on the Metro Council’s calendar for a second time.
Meanwhile, Briley’s proposal to create a task-force on city-wide broadband capability passed. Briley fears Nashville is lagging behind other large cities in offering broadband service to its citizens and businesses.
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