LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – The Lansing city clerk admitted to 6 News that he did not follow provisions in the city of Lansing’s Ethics Ordinance earlier this year.
The Lansing Ethics Ordinance requires that city council members’ motions for recusal on a vote be recorded in the minutes of the meeting “in full” and then sent on to the Board of Ethics “forthwith” by the clerk. Neither happened with motions for recusal by Lansing City Councilwoman At-Large Tamara Carter on March 10 and April 21 after she declined to take part in a vote on property owned by her sister-in-law.
Swope admitted in an interview on Wednesday the actions required under the laws didn’t happen. He told 6 News it had been “a longstanding practice” to simply record the vote to approve a recusal request…