Councilman calls for ordinance to ban council members from city employment

GENTRY — Alderman James Furgason, at the close of Monday’s council meeting, asked the personnel committee to consider and prepare an ordinance for council consideration which would ban persons from serving on the city councilwhile at the same time being employed or under contract with the city.

Furgason said the ordinance was recommended to him and needed by the city to assure its citizens that its government was making decisions for the good of the people and not for any personal gain.

While not commenting onthe particulars, Furgason made mention of incidents of questionable conduct in the county government and in previous councils, saying he would like to see such an ordinance in place so that Gentry’s city government could not be impugned.

The recommendation is to be taken up at the next personnel committee meeting.