REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Review the City's 2024 Code of Ethics and Conduct for Elected and Appointed Officials
Report
DISCUSSION
This report represents Council's opportunity to review and reaffirm the City's 2024 Code of Ethics and Conduct for Elected and Appointed Officials (hereafter referred to as "the Code").
The Code contains a section on ethical standards and a section on conduct which describes the way officials should treat one another, City staff, constituents, and others with whom they may come in contact with while representing the City.
No substantive changes to the Code as approved on January 9, 2024 are proposed by staff.
The City's boards and commissions that meet on a regular basis completed their annual review of the Code during the months of October 2023 through January 2024. The Personnel Board, which meets only on an as-needed basis, will review the Code at a future meeting yet to be scheduled.
Board and Commissions reviewed the Code prior to Council's January 9, 2024 addition of the following language to the Code:
The purpose of the "oral communications" section of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for members of the public who attend the meeting in person to address the members of the body on items within the body's subject matter jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Remote comments (via call in or internet platform) must be allowed during oral communications if a member of the body is participating in the meeting remotely under provisions of the Brown Act, Government Code Section 54953(f). Otherwise, the chair may, but is not required to, take remote public comments during oral communications and may determine it would be impractical to include remote public comment during oral communications for the purpose of timeliness of the meeting or conducting an orderly meeting.
No suggestions from Boards and Commissions were made to revise the prior version of the Code that did not include the January 9 addition.
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