Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh hasn't turned up at a council meeting for more than two weeks.
Today, Joe Guillen of the Detroit Free Press writes that the Detroit City Council will vote on a replacement for Pugh next week.
Council members did not indicate during the meeting that they had heard from him. “Who knows, by July the seventh, member Pugh, President Pugh or Charles Pugh might have resigned by then,” Councilwoman Brenda Jones said.
The city's law department told council that Pugh's position as council president was vacated once Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, stripped Pugh of his pay and duties.
A civil complaint was filed against Pugh for an inappropriate relationship with an 18 year-old boy.
Police are looking into the matter, but as Deadline Detroit's Jeff Wattrick writes, the allegations "are remarkably unsalacious at this point."
