County Commission to fill school board vacancy, consider goals for clerk’s office
The commission will take a third and final vote Monday on an ordinance by commissioner Henri Brooks (in a Sept. 12 photo) that would take the selection of a chief ethics officer out of the county attorney’s office. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
At the Monday, Oct. 17, session, commissioners will also take a final vote on a change — proposed by a commissioner who once ran afoul of an ethics investigation — to who appoints the county ethics officers.
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