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Teen violence report scheduled for April 16 Gilbert …

4/16/2024
Gilbert Town Council will discuss the council’s teen violence subcommittee report at its April 16 regular meeting.   Subcommittee updates have been a regular part of the meetings …

Gilbert Town Council considers taking out ethics …

2/21/2024
Having been through a deluge of ethics complaints in 2023, Gilbert Town Council is considering rolling parts of its ethics handbook into its Code of Conduct for officials and eliminating the …

A kinder, gentler Gilbert Town Council?

2/12/2024
When the Gilbert Town Council closed the book on the final ethics complaint from 2023, it may have signaled a council ready to move in a more cooperative fashion.   Councilmember Bobbi …

Last of Gilbert's summer ethics complaints allowed to …

12/13/2023
The era of Gilbert’s former ethics code for its council and commission members came to a quiet, if bewildering, end at the Gilbert Town Council meeting Dec. 12.   Council took no …

Last complaint against Gilbert council member …

12/8/2023
The last of the ethics complaints filed against Gilbert Town Council members last summer has been recommended for dismissal.   Independent investigator Sarah Barnes made the recommendation …

Gilbert's first ethics mediation reaches impasse

12/7/2023
A town council member and the resident who filed an ethics complaint against him can agree on one thing: Gilbert’s mediation process is “weird.”   Beyond that, the two …

Gilbert's new ethics complaint process getting tested

12/1/2023
The first ethics complaint filed under the town of Gilbert’s new rules for handling such incidents has hit a snag before the newly required mediation.   Complainant Maureen Hoppe has …

Gilbert resident's ethics complaint dismissed under …

10/30/2023
A Gilbert resident’s new ethics complaints against a council member have been dismissed on a technicality.   But Maureen Hoppe said all she ever wanted an apology and a meeting with …

Gilbert council member cautioned but found not to have …

9/1/2023
Gilbert Town Council Member Jim Torgeson did not violate the town’s code of ethics, an independent investigator found, but the first-term official also was cautioned about his conduct.  

Glendale business a BBB ethics award finalist

8/3/2023
A Glendale-based business serving the Valley since 1961 is a finalist for the 2023 BBB Torch Awards for Ethics.

Gilbert council subcommittee will look at conflict of …

8/2/2023
A Gilbert Town Council subcommittee on ethics will look at more closely specifying what constitutes a conflict of interest for council members.   The subcommittee’s chair, Council …

Two more ethics complaints filed in Gilbert

7/22/2023
Two more ethics complaints were filed July 13 against a Gilbert Town Council member, bringing to four such complaints lodged against three different members.   Maricopa County island …