Ten Metro Council members have signed a letter asking Gov. Bill Haslam and Attorney General Herbert Slattery to consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate allegations surrounding Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk.

The letter — here in PDF form — comes in response to weeks of reporting by News Channel 5's Phil Williams, who revealed that Funk arranged to have a state job created for him two months before he took office to boost his pension.

It outlines issues raised by Williams' reporting and also adds that "other issues and concerns have been raised about Mr. Funk's actions that we will not address in this letter." Councilmen Phil Claiborne and Duane Dominy sent a letter to Funk earlier this month, in which they stopped just short of calling for his resignation.

"With this background, we are respectfully requesting that you consider appointing a Special Prosecutor to investigate the actions of District Attorney Glenn Funk from June 2014 until the present time," the letter says. "External examination of these issues should clarify and define wrongdoing or the lack thereof. We feel this course of action to be in the best interest of Mr. Funk, the State of Tennessee, the Metro Council (who funds 75 percent of the DA's $7.6 million operating budget), and the voters who elected him to serve as the chief prosecutor of Metro Nashville-Davidson County."

The council members who signed the letter are: Phil Claiborne, Bruce Stanley, Charlie Tygard, Tony Tenpenny, Anthony Davis, Sheri Weiner, Steve Glover, Davette Blalock, Josh Stites, Robert Duvall.