About a half-dozen citizens have contacted state ethics officials in the past few days, offering to serve on the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board - which has been missing six of its nine allotted members for months, while legislative leaders have been slow in exercising their duty to appoint replacements to the three vacancies.
"I did hear from a number of people who were interested in the positions, and I forwarded all of their information to the appointing authorities," Carol Carson, director of the Office of State Ethics, said this week.
The Courant reported last Sunday that the ethics board had to cancel a scheduled meeting Aug. 19 because one of its remaining six members was out of the country on vacation - which meant it lacked the quorum of six required to hold a lawful meeting. State law says vacancies on the key watchdog board must be filled within 30 days, but two of the three openings date back at least six months.