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MINUTES OF A
BOARD OF ETHICS MEETING
CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA
March 14, 1991
City Attorney's Conference Room
5:00 p.m.
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MEMBERS PRESENT:
Bar r iet Acton, Donald Swanson, Jer ry
Rudolfo David, Janet Richter,
Padilla, Leo Kelly
McNutt,
Stephen
MEMBER ABSENT AND EXCUSED: None
CITY STAFF PRESENT: Assistant City Attorney Richard Rudolf
OTHERS PRESENT: Former Mayor Gregory Cox and members of the press
1. The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Acton at 5:00
p.m.
2. MSUC (David/Swanson) 6-0-1 (Member Kelly abstaining) to
approve the minutes of the meeting of March 5, 1991.
3. The Board then considered former Mayor Cox's request for an
advisory opinion. Following extensive discussion by each member
of the Board, Member Swanson made a motion to send a letter to
former Mayor Cox advising him to refrain from all contact with
the City except "for the filing of normal working documents" and
suggesting that he have a representative of his firm act as
liaison between former Mayor Cox I s office and the City, rather
than Mr. Cox himself. Addi tionally, he moved that former Mayor
Cox be advised that if the City requested his services, he could
par t icipa te on behalf of the Ci ty, but not on behal f of his
otherwise paying client. The motion died for a lack of a second.
MS (Padilla/Kelly) 5-2 (Swanson/Richter voting no) that the Board
render its opinion that any present or former member of the City
Council should refrain from all contact with the City on behalf
of a client from whom that person is receiving compensation for
the one year per iod speci f ied in the Ethics Code; it is fur ther
the opinion of the Board that such a person should refrain from
responding to inquiries from the City to that person about the
client's business; such a person clearly retains the right to
contact the City with regard to his or her own personal/family
"business" with the City, like any other citizen.
Staff clarified that the letter would be prepared for the
signature of Chairperson Acton and presented to her as soon as
possible. The Board requested copies go to the City Council and
the Chairperson of each board and commission covered by the
Ethics Code.
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Ethics Minutes
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4. MSUC (McNutt/Padilla) to continue consideration of potential
changes to the Ethics Code to a workshop to be held in the City
Attorney's Conference Room on Tuesday, March 19, 1991 from 5:00
to 7 :00 p.m. only, and that such meeting would be a workshop
only, at which the Board bound itself not to take action.
5. No member of the public being present, there were no oral
communications to the Board regarding items not on the Board's
agenda.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
(JYl.L~ A./)
D. Richard -~f
Assistant C~ttorney
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