City Council may ask voters to amend the municipal charter so that council members can’t hold paying jobs with any other public entity inside or outside of North Royalton.
The issue came up July 18 at a special meeting of council’s Review and Oversight Committee. Specifically, council members questioned whether Paul Marnecheck should continue working as Brook Park’s economic development commissioner while also serving as North Royalton’s council president.
Marnecheck, who is seeking re-election to his council president seat this fall, and his supporters believe other council members were politically motivated in proposing the charter amendment.
Wos said it’s not appropriate for any North Royalton elected official, regardless of political party, to hold public employment elsewhere.Potential conflictsMarnecheck said that before he accepted the Brook Park position, he consulted with North Royalton Law Director Tom Kelly.“In my time serving on council, I have always had full-time employment, as have many of my fellow councilmembers,” Marnecheck said.
Also, the elected official might have competing loyalties, Wos said. The official might face pressure from one public body to take an action that would not be in the best interest of the other public body. Wos, Dietrich and Nickell said they were not targeting Marnecheck specifically. They said they just wanted to address potential conflicts of interests among their members.
“It was overly restrictive and wouldn’t have passed council as is,” Wos said. “This underscores the importance of committee meetings for addressing and refining legislation. Marnecheck said he also hasn’t been in a position where he could hurt one city by supporting the other. He said he never has shared confidential information discussed in council executive sessions with Brook Park and never would.
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