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Council introduces ordinance to bar contracts to officialsfamily; adds one-year revolving-door restriction for former full-time employees

2343375 · February 19, 2025
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Summary

The council introduced, on first reading, an ordinance adding Section 2-112 to the Santa Ana Municipal Code to prohibit awarding contracts, agreements or grants to immediate family members of city officials and amended it to add a one-year post-employment contracting prohibition for former full-time city employees.

The Santa Ana City Council reintroduced an ordinance (proposed addition to Chapter 2, new Section 2-112) that would prohibit the city from awarding agreements, contracts or grants to immediate family members of the mayor, council members or city officials.

Councilmember Penalosa moved to reintroduce the ordinance with an amendment to expand revolving-door restrictions: the amended language applies a one-year prohibition on contracting for…

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