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Ordinance Amending Various Sections of Chapter 2.15 and Section 2.112.030 of the Sacramento City Code, Relating to Lobbyists (Passed for Publication 06/18/2024; Published XX/XX/2024)
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FileID
File ID: 2024-01202
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Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation
Recommendation: Adopt an Ordinance amending various sections of Chapter 2.15 and Section 2.112.030 of the Sacramento City Code relating to Lobbyists.
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Contact
Contact: Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, mcuppy@cityofsacramento.org, Office of the City Clerk; Gary Lindsey, Senior Deputy City Attorney, (916) 808-5346, glindsey@cityofsacramento.org, Office of the City Attorney
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Presenter
Presenter: None.
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Attachments
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Ordinance-Redline
3-Ordinance-Clean
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Description/Analysis
IssueDetail
Issue Detail: On May 16, 2023, after prior deliberations by the Sacramento Ethics Commission and the Personnel and Public Employees Committee, the Law and Legislation Committee passed a motion directing the City Clerk and/or City Attorney to bring back to the Law and Legislation Committee draft amendments to ordinance(s) on behalf of the Sacramento Ethics Commission per committee direction. The matter now before the Law and Legislation Committee is those draft ordinance amendments.
Pursuant to Sacramento City Code section 2.112.030, subsection A, paragraph 1, clause d, the Sacramento Ethics Commission "has the power and duty to . . . review, investigate, and consider complaints alleging violations of . . . Chapter 2.15 ('Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Code') .." Contradictorily, subsection B states the following:
The commission's authority under subsection A extends only to city elected officials, candidates for city elected office, independent expenditure committees, members of boards and commissions, the city manager, the city clerk, the city attorney, the city treasurer, the city auditor, the independent budget a...
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