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COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT
Item 1'9
ITEM TITLE:
Meeting Date 7/26/88
Ordinance ,Jf) 7 Y Amending Section 1. 08. 010 of the Chula
Vista Municipal Code Relating to the Official Seal and
Official Logo of the City
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\ Assistant City Attorney $ECOND READING AND ADOPTION
(4/5ths Vote: Yes___No~)
SUBMITTED BY:
FOllowing a complaint by Cliff Roland regarding the alleged improper use of
city letterhead by Rev. Flaugher, the Redevelopment Agency requested staff
review current City policies to determine whether the use by Rev. Flaugher was
prohibited and if not, return to Council with the proposed policy which would
prevent future abuses. This ordinance redefines the City seal consistent with
its 1985 design, adds a prohibition relating to the City logo and for
malicious use to the existing prohibition against use of the City seal for
commercial purposes, and makes it consistent with State law relating to misuse
of the seal of the State of California.
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: N/A
~COMMENDATION: That Council place ordinance on first reading.
DISCUSSION:
Although the Mobilehomes Issues Committee is not an official board or
commission of the City created by the City Council, staff of the Community
Development Department provide some support to the Committee because of the
public purpose performed by the Committee's review of mobilehome issues
relating to the community. As part of that support, Communi ty Development
staff promulgates notices of meetings for the Mobilehome Issues Committee on
City letterhead, which contains the official logo of the City. Although the
meetings of the Committee are not officially sanctioned by the City, the
expenditure of funds and distribution of such notices is a lawful expenditure
of pUblic funds for public purpose.
Cliff Roland, Chairperson of the Mobilehomes Issues Committee, complained to
the members of the Agency at its meeting of May 19, 1988, that the handwritten
notations, which added to the meeting notice, and were then xeroxed and widely
distributed by Rev. Flaugher, constituted an improper use of the City logo.
The Agency requested staff review the current City policies to determine
whether the alleged use was prohibi ted, and if not, to return to the City
Council with a proposed policy which would prevent future abuses.
Section 475 of the State Penal Code defines forgery to include the forging or
_counterfeiting of any public seal authorized or recognized by the laws of this
ate with the intent to defraud another. Government Code Section 402 makes
t a misdemeanor for a person to "maliciously or for commercial purposes" use