SAN ANTONIO — Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones on Friday will become the first sitting San Antonio mayor to face a censure vote in decades after council members decided to move forward with considering a resolution that says her conduct is “not acceptable for an elected official and should not be tolerated.”
City Council met for a lengthy Monday meeting – most of it unfolding behind closed doors – to discuss the findings of an outside investigation into Jones’ conduct after Sukh Kaur, the District 1 representative on council, submitted a Code of Conduct complaint against the mayor. An ensuing memo submitted by five members of City Council cited “repeated instances of unprofessional conduct” and called for a possible censure vote pending the outcome of that probe.
The complaint itself, send by Kaur to City Manager Erik Walsh and City Attorney Andy Segovia on Feb. 9, is brief and describes in broad terms what happened inside a City Council break room the morning of Feb. 5…