FROM:
City Clerk
SUBJECT:
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Amendment of the Conflict-of-Interest Code for the City of Fontana, Pursuant to the Political Reform Act of 1974
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution No. 2024-123, of the City Council of the City of Fontana, California, adopting and approving the amended Conflict-of-Interest Code for the City of Fontana, Pursuant to the Political Reform Act of 1974.
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COUNCIL GOALS:
• Create and maintain a dynamic team by promoting stability and predictability by providing consistent policy direction.
• Create and maintain a dynamic team by ensuring commissions work within clear guidelines to achieve Council goals.
DISCUSSION:
The Political Reform Act of 1974, Government Code section 81000, et seq. (the “Act”), requires all public agencies to adopt and maintain a conflict-of-interest code. The Act further requires that agencies regularly review and update their codes as directed by the code reviewing body or when change is necessitated by changed circumstances (Sections 87306 and 87306.5). The City Council is the City’s code-reviewing body.
As the code-reviewing body, the City Council, on September 24, 2024, directed that the Code be reviewed and, if a change in the Code was necessary, that a revised Code be prepared and submitted to the City Council for final approval. During this bi-annual review, staff found that certain amendments to the Code are necessary.
Government Code Section 87303 provides that no code or amendment to a code shall be effective until it has been approved by the code-reviewing body.
Attached is a legislative (redlined) version and final version of the proposed amended Code. The proposed revisions include new positions that must be designated, revising titles of existing positions, revising disclosure categories, and deleting titles of positions that have been abolished and/or positions that no longer make or participate in making governmental decisions.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
MOTION:
Approve staff recommendation.