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Adler signs first resolution
Thursday, February 5, 2015 by Jo Clifton
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.
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