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City attorney briefs Downtown Review Board on ethics, gifts, recusal and open-meeting rules
Summary
The City Attorney's Office delivered the board's annual ethics refresher on Oct. 7, reviewing the local ethics code (City Code Chapter 1, Article 3), gift exceptions, conflict-of-interest disclosures and recusal requirements, advisory opinions and open-meeting notice rules, including the 24-hour posting requirement.
Young of the City Attorney's Office presented the annual ethics and open-meetings briefing to the Downtown Review Board on Oct. 7, walking members through the city code of ethics, gift rules, conflict-of-interest standards and the process for recusal and advisory opinions.
Young explained that Colorado Springs adopted its own ethics code and advised board members to seek written advisory opinions from the city attorney's office for questions about future actions because "a written advisory opinion can be a…
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