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With Nutter now in office, [Zack Stalberg] and others have reason to believe that nun's prayers could actually be answered someday. Nutter's mayoral campaign message promised greater government transparency. And as a member of City Council, Nutter sponsored several measures aimed at cleaning up the city's deeply ingrained pay-to-play culture Significantly, Nutter introduced legislation that reconstituted Philadelphia's Board of Ethics.
What's coming: [J. Shane Creamer Jr.] says Philadelphians can expect several trends to emerge this year. First, the board will take steps to ensure more government transparency. "We've already seen this in the area of no-bid contracts, as well as with the electronic filing of campaign finance reports," Creamer says. "But even more openness in city government is on the way."The Board of Ethics also intends to strengthen and clarify language written back in 1963, when Philadelphia original code of ethics was adopted. For instance, the existing gift ban is vague and open to interpretation-prohibiting employees from accepting items "of significant value" that could "influence decisions." But the board intends to make it clear that city employees should not even be nibbling fruit from holiday gift baskets, "if we're going to break the connection between political donors and elected officials," Creamer notes.See the full content of this document
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J. Shane Creamer Jr.
Title: Executive director of the city's Board of Ethics.
Age: 46About three years ago Committee of Seventy president and CEO Zack Stalberg was introduced to a nun. She asked him what he did tor a living. When Sta...See the full content of this document
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