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Jolly Road 124 Michigan Avenue Lansing, MI 48910 Lansing, MI 48933 Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:30pm St. Vincent Catholic Charities will provide assistance to their existing clients ONLY CP#15_134 City Pulse • June 24, 2015 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Randy Hannan, chief of staff for Lansing Mayor Virg Ber- nero, said the city’s assessment of costs came from taking the mayoral election year cap and adding administrative costs for Lansing reimbursing citizens who submit receipts. Hannan said the proposal “appears to be a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist in Lansing. “We already have a strong ethics ordinance that includes fi- OF THE WEEK nancial disclosure requirements for top city officials. State law ethics reform already regulates campaign contributions and the reporting of Public campaign financing, lobbying activity. It is not clear that the city even has the legal authority to regulate these areas.” lobbying restrictions proposed Sorg called the effort “proactive.” Lansing voters will likely decide in November whether to “Too often government only reacts to scandal or crisis. We make sweeping changes in the city’s ethics ordinance, including feel being proactive protects future generations from the kinds adding a provision for public funding of local elections. of scandals that have rocked Detroit, other cities and Congress.” A new ballot initiative committee called Lansing Citizens for Sorg is a longtime Democratic activist, former radio talk Ethics Reform submitted a petition with 6,673 signatures to the show host and unsuccessful candidate for the state House in City Clerk’s Office last week. 2012. Delhi Township Clerk Chris Swope has until Trustee Gene Hayhoe, Wednesday to determine a Republican, and Rich if at least 4,000 are valid. Robinson of the nonpar- If so, the proposal goes to tisan Michigan Campaign the City Council, which Finance Network are also can either adopt it or, more organizers. likely, put it on the General Dan Krassner, a spokes- Election ballot. If passed, it man for Represent.Us, would take effect in 2017. said by email it has spent The national group Rep- $25,000 so far in Lan- resent.Us, which bills itself sing and doesn’t antici- as “a fiercely nonpartisan pate spending more than movement to pass tough $50,000. anti-corruption laws,” is be- He said his organiza- hind the local effort. It paid tion paid California-based an outside firm to collect the PCI Consultants to collect signatures.