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File #: 25-2715    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/23/2025 In control: Town Council
On agenda: 10/29/2025 Final action:
Title: Discussion and possible action to recommend the Town Council to adopt a proposed "An Ordinance Establishing a Town of Ledyard Code of Ethics and Ethics Commission" to incorporate public feedback and recommendations provided by the Town Attorney.
Attachments: 1. Attorny Legal Oinion-Ethics Ordinance Adopted October8-2025-email-2025-10-22, 2. MEMO TRANSMITTING MAYOR LTR VETO-ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ETHICS COMMISISON-2025-10-16, 3. Exhibit 1_Comments to Ordinance_MRitter_10.15.2025, 4. Exhibit 2 Parks & Recreation Director Ordinance Comments 10.14.2025, 5. Exhibit 3_JBuhle Correspondence 10.9.2025, 6. TC-MIN-2025-09-24-PUBLIC HEAIRNG, 7. DRAFT CODE OF ETHICS AND ETHICS COMMISSION-ADMIN MTG-2025-09-10, 8. AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A TOWN OF LEDYARD CODE OF ETHICS AND ETHICS-ATTORNE RED LINE DRAFT, 9. AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A TOWN OF LEDYARD CODE OF ETHICS AND ETHICS-RITTER-22434477-v2, 10. Ethics Ordinance - FAQ- J-Buhle-2025-09-10, 11. DRAFT CODE OF ETHICS AND ETHICS COMMISSION-JESSICA-2025-09-08, 12. Town Attroney-Ethics Odinance-email-2025-07-24, 13. DRAFT_AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A TOWN OF LEDYARD CODE OF ETHICS AND ETHICS COMMISSIONDRAFT-2025-06-11-CLEAN COPY, 14. SCHROEDER - Proposed Changes CoE 9_10_2025, 15. Ball-Ethics Commisson email-2025-08-21, 16. Schroder ltr-Proposed Ordinance Creating a Code of Ethics & Ethics Commisison-Attorney Comments-2025-08-06, 17. Acknowledgement Form-Code of Ethics-DRAFT.pdf, 18. Town Charter-Investigation-Conflict of Interest, 19. Fraud Policy - Adopted-2014-05-28, 20. CGS - CHAPTER 10-ETHICS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.pdf, 21. Ethics Commission- Fothergill-dmail-2024-09-13, 22. Ethics Commission- Franzone emaill-2024-09-13, 23. Ethics Commission- Lyons-emaill-2024-09-13, 24. Ethics Commission- Wilkinson-emaill-2024-09-13, 25. Ethics Commission-Samos-email-2024-09-24, 26. Ethics Commisison - Wilkinson-email-2024-11-18, 27. Ethics Commission-Edwards email-2024-12-07, 28. EThis Commission-Porazzi-email-2024-12-11, 29. Ethics Commisison-Schroeder ltr-2024-12-11, 30. Jelden-Ethics Commission-email-2024-12-16, 31. Murray - Ethics Commission-email-2025-1-08, 32. Ethics Commission Ordinance-Ball email-2025-02-02, 33. House of Representatives HB 6502 Ethics Reform 2008-07-09.pdf, 34. ACC Municipal Ethics - Minimum Provisions (2019).pdf, 35. Representative France-Code of Ethics E-mail 2019-03-04.pdf, 36. Ethics Commisison-Ball-email-2025-02-02, 37. Kil Ethics Commission email-2025-01-10, 38. RTC Ethics Commission email-2025-01-10, 39. S Pealer Ethics Commission email-2025-01-10, 40. Saums Ethics Commission email-2025-01-10, 41. Cherry-Ethics Commission Draft Ordinance-email-2025-02-12, 42. D-Pealer-Ethics Commission-email-2025-02-12, 43. Hellekson-Ethics Commissioneemail-2025-02-12, 44. Lamb Third Party Flags-Ethics Commission--email- 2025-02-12, 45. Cassidy -email-2025-02-11-Ethics Commission, 46. D-Pealer Ethics Commission email-2025-02-11, 47. Hurt-Ethics Commission- email-2025-02-11, 48. Siegel-Miles-Ethics Commission--email-2025-02-11, 49. Shelton email-Ethics Commission-2025-03-11, 50. Roberts-Pierson-Ethics Commision-email-2025-04-01, 51. Consolini -ETHICS COMMISSION-EMAIL-2025-04-07, 52. Larson-Ethics Commission-2025-04-08, 53. Schroeder -ETHICS COMMISSION-EMAIL-2025-04-07, 54. Berry-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08- Page 1-, 55. Berry-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08- Page 2-, 56. Khors-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08, 57. Christy-Fogg-DEI-In Schools-email-2025-04-08, 58. Porazzi-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08, 59. Zeronsa-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08, 60. Atwood-Ethics Commission-email-2025-04-08, 61. Franzone-Ethics Commisstion-ltr -2025-04-08
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Motion/Request:
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Discussion and possible action to recommend the Town Council to adopt a proposed "An Ordinance Establishing a Town of Ledyard Code of Ethics and Ethics Commission" to incorporate public feedback and recommendations provided by the Town Attorney.
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Background:


Town Council Meeting - October 22, 2025: Approved the following:

Tabled the following Motion to a date to be determined by the Chairman:
MOTION to override the Mayor's disapproval/veto dated October 16, 2025 and approved the "An Ordinance Establishing a Town of Ledyard Code of Ethics And Ethics Commission" as approved by the Town Council at their October 8, 2025 meeting.


Mayor VETO- October 16, 2025: (Please see attached Mayor's letter dated 10/16/2025)

In accordance with the Town Charter, I am transmitting "Ordinance Establishing a Town of Ledyard Code of Ethics and Ethics Commission for the Town of Ledyard which the Mayor stated his disapproval in his letter dated October 16, 2025 listing his reasons for not approving the proposed Ordinance.

Chapter III, Section12 of the Town Charter states the following:

Every ordinance, except an emergency ordinance or an ordinance relating to the Town Council or its procedures, shall, before it becomes effective, be certified to the Mayor for his approval within seven (7) days of the final passage by the Town Council. The Mayor shall sign the proposed ordinance, if he approves it, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 5 of this Chapter, it shall become effective. If he disapproves a proposed ordinance, he shall, within five (5) days of its receipt by him, return it to the clerk of the Town Council with a statement of the reasons for his disapproval, which statement shall be transmitted by said clerk to the Town Council at its next meeting.

If the Town Council shall pass the proposed ordinance by an affirmative vote of at least six (6) members within fourteen (14) days after such ordinance has been returned...

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