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City councilors are pushing to overhaul ethics rules after investigative reports exposed murky transparency in the mayor’s office. The ethics committee is considering requiring council members to disclose personal stock holdings in companies doing business with the city, banning NDAs for city projects, and mandating full disclosure of travel, meals, salaries, and consulting fees—all to be made public in an easy-to-access database. This follows a history of ethics scrutiny, including last year’s reforms after revelations of lucrative city contracts awarded to councilors’ employers. A key hurdle? The city’s ethics commission—appointed by the mayor and separate from the council’s committee—has met only once since the mayor took office, and citizens can’t file complaints; only other councilors can. Meanwhile, some Democrats are proposing a one-year cooling-off period for top officials, timed with a report questioning a former chief of staff’s swift move to a local engineering firm. The committee’s next meeting is pending, but the push for accountability is gaining steam.

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