ALLENTOWN (AP) - City council members in Pennsylvania's third-largest city are set to vote next week on a no confidence motion calling on the mayor to resign in the wake of an FBI probe of government contracting.

A resolution scheduled for a vote Wednesday in Allentown says council members have concluded that Mayor Ed Pawlowski "is no longer an effective leader and can no longer carry out the duties of the office of mayor." The document, made public Friday along with the board's agenda, also says that Pawlowski's continued service "is a detriment to the well-being of the city, its residents and city employees."The resolution, which would only be symbolic, cites the subpoena served last summer at Allentown City Hall as well as criminal charges and subsequent guilty pleas by three former city officials.The city's former controller, Mary Ellen Koval, pleaded guilty Thursday to a conspiracy charge in what authorities called a bribery and kickback scheme. Prosecutors alleged that Koval, the first elected official charged in the case, and an unnamed official seeking statewide office "requested and received campaign contributions as incentives and rewards for past, continued and future official actions."The official was unnamed, as has been the case in previous indictments, but was described as an elected Allentown official with authority over city contracts who announced his candidacy for a position in the federal government on April 17. Pawlowski announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on that date.Pawlowski, who was unavailable for comment and whose attorney is reviewing the resolution, has not been charged in the case. His attorney, Mark Schamel, issued a statement in September calling the mayor a "trusted public servant who has never misused his office.""Mayor Pawlowski has never accepted an improper payment, engaged in pay to play, or even been offered, let alone accepted a bribe," Schamel said.Former Allentown finance director Garret Strathearn pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to conspiracy to commit fraud. A former assistant city solicitor is awaiting sentencing in March.