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COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT
Item 20
Meeting Date 7/21/87
ITEM TITLE:
SUBMITTED BY:
the Chula Vista
Members to our
~' (4/5ths Vote: Yes
Ordinance ~a~~ - Amending Section 2.02.020 of
Municipal Code Adding Project Area Committee
List of Designated Officials
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City Attorne~i
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This ordinance would add Redevelopment Project Area Committee members to the
list of designated officials for purposes of the Political Reform Act.
RECONIl~NDATION: Place the Ordinance on its First Reading
BQARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: N/A
DISCUSSION:
In its June, 1987 bulletin, the Fair Political Practices Commission announced
new opinion which will require members of Redevelopment Project Area
ittees to be subject to local conflict of interest codes. The new opinion
Re Rotman (86-001) overrules the earlier Bonfa opinion which held that
Project Area Committee members did not have to file disclosure statements or
be subject to the conflict of interest rules. There is a certain amount of
incongruity between this new opinion and redevelopment law. Redevelopment law
encourages an agency to select businessmen in the Redevelopment area to serve
on a Project Area Committee in order to get their input on how decisions of
the Agency would affect interested parties. Now since the Political Reform
Act will apply to these members, interested parties will have to abstain and
we will be deprived of that input.
The Community Redevelopment Agency Association announced in its June, 1987
newsletter that it is going to attempt to have an urgency bill introduced that
would reverse this opinion. Since the FPPC opinion is now is effect and any
future legislation to affect it is entirely speculative, it is necessary for
us to amend our ordinance to follow the direction of the FPPC. The proposed
amendment will include Project Area Committees on the list of designated
employees in the City Code. They will now have to file disclosure statements
and will be required to abstain from participating in decisions where the
decision could have a material effect on their financial interest.
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A
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