April 24, 2005

Metro Council Ethics

Nashville's Metro City Council may be looking at pushing their own ethics policy by the end of the month. A citizen's task force has proposed the fairly strict policy...now it's up to the Council...

Councilman-at-large David Briley said he welcomes the proposed changes.

''The basic idea behind the task force is that it would let the public establish standards for council conduct and take the council out of the role of setting those standards,'' he said.

''What I intend to do is file a bill that is identical to the recommendation of the task force and do my best to get that adopted without any change whatsoever.''

He said the proposed changes might stand a better chance of passing Metro Council in light of ethics bills working their way through the state legislature.

''The public's attention to this issue is raised,'' he said. ''I think it's an opportunity for the council to look good in comparison.''

The question that's being raised though, can anyone not look good in comparison to the state legislature?

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