Mayor Steve Adler signed the first ordinance presented to him in his official capacity on Tuesday. It will become old hat soon, but he was pretty excited to take the pen and inscribe his name on an ordinance approved by Council last week that made clear that ethics complaints about rank and file city employees would fall under civil service jurisdiction, not within the purview of the Ethics Commission.
Jo Clifton is the Politics Editor for the Austin Monitor. More by Jo Clifton

