Board of Ethics approves advisory-opinion response and declines ethics complaint 2025-05

The Board of Ethics returned from closed session on July 17 and approved two formal actions: distribution of the board's response to request for advisory opinion 2025-03, and a decision to decline an ethics complaint (filed as 2025-05).

The board first moved into a closed session to consider a confidential advisory-opinion request. After returning to open session the board voted to approve and distribute the response to advisory-opinion request 2025-03. The motion passed with aye votes recorded.

The board then considered a new ethics complaint listed on the agenda as "potential violation 2025-05." After discussion, a board member moved to decline the complaint under the board's cited basis, referenced in the transcript as "2G" and "115262Gs," indicating the allegations, if true, would not constitute a violation of the code of ethics. The motion to decline was seconded and carried.

Both actions were taken in open session after the closed deliberation and were recorded on the meeting minutes; the board did not vote to open the detailed closed-session record in public. The transcript records the motions and the aye votes for both items but does not provide additional public findings or the advisory-opinion text itself within the meeting record.