COEUR d'ALENE - The Bonner County Prosecutors Office is reviewing a representative's complaint about potential conflict of interest violations regarding Coeur d'Alene city officials and the McEuen Field project.

Bonner County Prosecutor Louis Marshall said today he agreed to review Coeur d'Alene Republican Kathy Sims' complaint and would issue a legal analysis at the end of the week.

That analysis will be forwarded on to Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh, who asked the outside agency to look at the Coeur d'Alene issue at Sims' request.

The complaint says that ethics in government laws were breached as Coeur d'Alene city officials worked on the conceptual plan for the downtown park because some officials have business and property ties near the park.

Sims forwarded the complaint to the Idaho Attorney General's Office, which said violations didn't exist according to Idaho statute, but it couldn't investigate the matter.

McHugh's wife has had contracts with the city of Coeur d'Alene for public art pieces over the last couple of years. McHugh said he didn't feel there was a conflict of interest for him to look into the Coeur d'Alene matter because of those contracts, but asked Bonner County to handle it at Sims' request.