Multnomah County Commissioners Shannon Singleton and Julia Brim-Edwards plan to introduce a formal resolution next week calling for an external investigation into the county code of ethics in the wake of revelations that the Preschool for All program director owned a preschool that burned through state dollars.

The draft resolution and agenda placement requests, shared with WW on Wednesday, come after Preschool for All director Leslee Barnes resigned in late July. Both commissioners called for that resignation on the basis that Barnes’ role as a preschool owner was a conflict of interest as she helped ramp capacity on a program that has already altered early child care across the county.

Their calls for resignation also came shortly after a WW story about how the Secretary of Sta

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