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Commission reviews post-employment ('revolving door') limits and hardship exception example
Summary
Staff described revolving-door provisions that bar certain appointments or employment for one year after a public official leaves the body of which they were a member, and gave a hypothetical ("Jeff") to show how the rule operates and when hardship exceptions might be considered.
The trainer described post-employment restrictions that prevent an elected or appointed official from accepting appointments or positions that require approval by the body of which they were a member for one year after leaving that body. "No elected or appointed official may accept any appointment or election that requires approval by the body of which that official is or was a member to any position which carries with it financial benefit. This prohibition continues for one year after the termination of that person's membership in or on such body," she said.
She illustrated with an example: a former council member who leaves and six months later is offered private counsel work for the council would still be barred for the remainder of the one-year period unless the commission finds a substantial hardship that justifies an exception. Trainer emphasized hardship exceptions are narrowly construed and generally reserved for genuine agency need rather than the individual's commercial plans.
