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Council refines participation and conflict-of-interest sections, reorders gifts and disclosure items
Summary
During a detailed review of Section 13.4, members proposed renumbering and reordering participation restrictions, employment and financial interest rules, and the gifts/disclosure items to clarify scope and nesting.
Council members dissected Section 13.4 (participation restrictions) and related subsections, proposing structural edits to ensure the text clearly separates disqualification rules, employment/financial-interest restrictions and gifts-related language.
Members repeatedly recommended converting certain prose lines into lettered subpoints and changing Roman numerals to Arabic numerals where appropriate. As one participant summarized, solicitation and acceptance of gifts should be labeled consistently (for example, as item f), and disclosure of confidential information should be listed separately rather than nested under gifts.
The council asked staff to renumber the affected subsections and return with a version that shows the new nesting so members can verify that cross-references and exceptions (for example, "except as provided in subsection c of this section") read correctly.
