A flurry of activity in recent days has ended all but two of the ethics complaints against city elected officials and staff, leaving just complaints against City Manager John Mauro and Mayor David Faber pending.

On May 21, Reverend Crystal Cox of the Universal Church of Light, author of all the recent ethics complaints, withdrew her case against Haylie Truesdel, the city’s records officer. Cox had filed an ethics complaint against Truesdel on March 15, alleging violations of the state’s public records laws, “injury to public record,” special privilege and perjury.

On the same day, Cox also withdrew her complaint against council member Amy Howard. Cox filed an ethics complaint against Howard on March 12, alleging violations of the state’s open public meetings act, intimidation, bullying, discrimination, breach of fiduciary duty and conflict of interest.

Cox had previously dropped her ethics complaint against Council Member Libby Wennstrom on April 30.

On May 25, Phil Olbrechts dismissed Cox’s complaint against Council Member Owen Rowe, finding it “insufficient” to proceed with an ethics cases against the councilman.

Cox had filed her complaint against Rowe on March 28 alleging special privilege violations, state whistleblower law violations and violations of the city’s ethics code.

In regard to Faber, both Faber and Cox have moved forward with motions for summary judgement.

In regard to Mauro, Cox said she will move forward with one allegation against Mauro — that Mauro gave special privilege “to a group of people and individuals he called pro-trans over a group of people and individuals he called anti-trans.”

That allegation stems from incidents following Julie Jaman’s confrontation with a transgender employee at the city’s Mountain View Pool in July 2022.

That incident led to a lawsuit in Western District Court, which according to Jaman, Jaman’s attorneys and city officials, is near settlement.