TWO HARBORS — A condition investigation into Mayor Chris Swanson observed he might not have disclosed passions in corporations that went ahead of the Town Council. It also found the council and city attorney “acted appropriately” in examining no matter whether conflicts of interest existed.

The 12-website page investigative report released by the Minnesota Business of the Condition Auditor on Thursday found Swanson, who faces a remember election Aug. 9, disclosed his interest in some of his businesses that went just before the council but documentation of disclosures for other companies could not be discovered.

“The (Business of Point out Auditor) found scenarios where by city steps included just one or additional of the enterprises that surface to be related to the mayor,” the report claimed. “Documentation implies that the mayor may possibly have disclosed an fascination in some of these enterprises. For other folks, we identified no documentation of these types of disclosure.”

The investigation into the mayor’s organization dealings commenced in February,

the Information Tribune initial described.

According to auditor’s report, Swanson disclosed his involvement in Everyday living Garage, LLC as “a mentor and advisor and as the father of Callie Swanson.”

As the Information Tribune previously reported

, Callie Swanson is mentioned as Existence Garage LLC’s president, according to a $100,000 bank loan Lifetime Garage gained from the Two Harbors Growth Fund, a town-operate nonprofit, in October 2019.

The $100,000 loan was funded as a result of a grant from the Office of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation to the Two Harbors Enhancement Fund, but Lifestyle Garage had borrowed a full of $150,000, according to conference minutes from the fund acquired by the Information Tribune by way of a metropolis details request.

Callie Swanson gained an supplemental $70,000 in loans from the fund in July 2020 to support fund building perform at Burlington Station, her gift and candy store in Two Harbors, according to the fund’s minutes.

The report did not mention the financial loans Daily life Garage or Burlington Station received by way of the town-operate nonprofit, but cited a September 2019 letter from the town…