The State Ethics Commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to determine whether its longtime executive director will retain his position.

The agenda for the 9:30 a.m. meeting indicates the commission will consider public testimony before going behind closed doors to consider Mollway’s future.

A 4-page sanitized version of the findings of a commission investigation was made public late last month.

According to this public report, the commission’s professional staff contacted the commission in December 2009 with concerns about Mollway’s actions and falling staff morale. The commission responded by interviewing all of its staff, reviewing personnel records, records of Mollway’s presence in or absence from the office, including sign-out sheets and applications for leave, as well as internal and external emails between Mollway and others.

Commission staff apparently were concerned about Mollway’s “apparent disengagement from the office and the staff.”

A review of office records confirmed Mollway had “a pattern of use of his leave time in such irregular small increments that his time actually spent in theoffice was very sporadic.”

While the report indicates commissioners appreciate Mollway’s intellect and experience, its investigating committee found “the Commission cannot function with an Executive Director who is not appropriately engaged as the office administrator/manager.”

The commission’s evaluation of Mollway will be held in closed executive session unless Mollway requests that it be open to the public.