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Supervisors split over ethics ordinance language; committee duplicates file and continues review
Summary
After an extended discussion and public comment, the Budget & Finance Committee agreed to duplicate the campaign and government conduct code into two versions (the Ethics Commission's staff version and a committee-amended version) and continued both to the call of the chair for further coordination with the Ethics Commission.
The Budget & Finance Committee spent the bulk of its meeting on proposed revisions to the campaign and government conduct code that address campaign finance, bundling disclosures, recusal rules and behested-payment disclosures.
Ethics Commission staff (Kyle Kundert and Patrick Ford) told the committee they revised the draft to make the contributor card voluntary, trim bundling disclosures to identify who the bundler is and which contributions were bundled (removing a requirement to disclose whether the bundler attempted to influence the recipient), and remove a land-use-specific prohibition from this ordinance so the commission can pursue it in separate legislation. They also said the proposed code now ties "interested party"…
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