The Durango Herald: The Durango Board of Ethics concluded last week that a former advisory board member violated three sections of the city’s codes of ethics and conduct when he privately emailed a city councilor about public business and attempted to shield the correspondence from the public eye.

Former City Councilor Melissa Youssef filed an ethics complaint against former Infrastructure Advisory Board member John Simpson on Jan. 19, 2024, which alleged Simpson violated 10 sections of the ethics code.

Many of the allegations stemmed from emails between Simpson and former Councilor Olivier Bosmans obtained by The Durango Herald in a November 2023 records request. In the emails, the two city officials discussed upcoming public business and how to outmaneuver City Council on specific issues.

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