FEDERAL HEIGHTS, Colo. Mayor Dale Sparks said he has not decided whether to resign after the City Council voted to ask him to step down over his work as a doorman at a strip club where allegations of prostitution sparked a police raid.

The council last week voted 4-2 to ask Sparks to resign and elected a pro tem mayor to replace Sparks should he do so.

Adams County Chief Deputy District Attorney Tom Quammen this weeks said no charges will be filed. A special prosecutor hired by the city hasn’t ruled out any charges of violating the city’s municipal code.

Sparks has denied wrongdoing. He worked three nights a week at the Bare Essence Gentleman’s Club for about a year. He quit after police raided the club in April.

Police accused Sparks of turning a “blind eye” to illegal activities inside the club and to once tipping a club manager that an undercover police officer was in the club.

Back Story: Federal Heights police have accused Mayor Dale Sparks of interfering with an undercover investigation into a city strip club where the mayor was a doorman, an investigative report obtained by The Denver Post says.

In interview transcripts, Sparks was accused of turning a “blind eye” to activities at the Bare Essence Gentleman’s Club that included illegal touching, prostitution and offers of drugs.

Several dancers, the disc jockey and the club’s owner, Leo Tsodikov, were arrested during a raid in April.

Police allege that the mayor was part of an ongoing scheme to distract officers who came into the club and that he helped with a system that discreetly notified dancers when police arrived so the women could jump off clients in a private room.

“We know that you know what’s going on in there,” police Lt. Rodger McLaughlin tells Sparks in an interview after the club was raided. “We have audio tapes of people talking about the mayor and (how) he knows what’s going on in there. …”

Sparks told police that was hired in April 2005 and worked at the door three nights a week to “make ends meet.” Sparks was paid $100 nightly, sometimes in cash.

Police say in the report, given to the City Council on Thursday, that Sparks likely was hired to interfere with police and possibly to notify Tsodikov if the club were being investigated.

Sparks did not return requests for an interview Saturday night. But in the interview with police, the mayor repeatedly