BELLEVUE - Leaders of the Omaha suburb of Bellevue have voted down a measure that would have allowed the firing of elected officials for engaging in misconduct or leaking information from closed-door meetings.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Bellevue City Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to approve a set of ordinances that define punishments for the city’s mayor and council members in the face of misconduct.

Those punishments include reprimands and the loss of an official’s seat on a committee or task force.

But the council voted 4-2 to withdraw a previously floated proposal that could have removed offending elected officials from office.