Ethics Hearing Board-plank

Pittsburgh residents need to feel that they can trust their elected officials again.
* City Council was never interested in the Ethics Hearing Board.
* A previous mayor, Tom Murphy, was under investigation for many months. This group could have lifted the clouds of corruption within city hall.
* City leaders should reinstate the Ethics Hearing Board. Five members should be appointed and when a seat opens, new members should be appointed.
:* Board members should come from several different backgrounds and from throughout the City. For example; Members representing different races of people, different political parties, different economic backgrounds, different sexes, and so on. 
* The city is not interested in a board that wastes city resources with frivolous investigations guided by personal agendas.
* The board should be unpaid positions. 
* The Ethics Hearing Board was put into a worthless position, much like the Citizens Police Review Board by the adminstration and city council when it is starved of members.
==Links==
* Ethics Hearing Board
===Blogs===
* http://rauterkus.blogspot.com/2007/02/peduto-calls-for-ethics-meeting-good.html from Feb 2007
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