JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - The Joplin City Council has voted to hold a hearing to resolve ethics questions about a council member that were raised in a recent state audit.
The Joplin Globe reports (http://bit.ly/1MLeLPP) the city council voted Monday night to hold the censure hearing related to Council member Mike Woolston's property dealings.
The hearing scheduled for Monday comes after a state audit released last week concluded that the city's land bank, the Joplin Redevelopment Corp., paid "substantially more" for some properties it bought from a local builder. Months after the 2011 Joplin tornado that devastate Joplin, Woolston, a real estate agent, brokered some property sales for land that's now the construction site of the new Joplin Public Library.
Woolston said at the Monday meeting he's done nothing wrong or inappropriate.