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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 26
DATE: June 6, 2000
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF:
Steve Roy
SUBJECT:
Resolution 2000-80 Accepting the Advisory Opinion and RecommendationNo.2000-1 of the Ethics
Review Board.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Section 2-569(e) of the City Code provides that all opinions and recommendations of the Council
Ethics Review Board be submitted to the full Council for review and approval. The Ethics Review
Board met on May 23, 2000, to render an opinion on whether Mayor Pro Tem Chuck Wanner has
a conflict of interest in participating in City Council's consideration of proposed floodplain
regulations for the Poudre River by reason of his employment as Executive Director of The Friends
of the Poudre or as a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Poudre. That meeting
resulted in the issuance of Opinion No. 2000-1 (Exhibit "A" to the Resolution), which will be
provided to Council in the June 1, 2000, packet.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Code, this opinion is being presented to the Council for its
review and possible approval.
RESOLUTION 2000-80
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ACCEPTING THE ADVISORY OPINION AND RECOMMENDATION NO. 2000-1
OF THE ETHICS REVIEW BOARD
WHEREAS, the City Council has established an Ethics Review Board (the `Board")
consisting of three members of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the Board is empowered under Section 2-569 of the City Code to render
advisory opinions and recommendations regarding actual or hypothetical situations of
Councilmembers of board and commission members of the City; and
WHEREAS,the Ethics Review Board met on May 23,2000,to consider whether Mayor Pro
Tern Chuck Wanner has a conflict of interest in participating in City Council's consideration of
proposed floodplain regulations for the Poudre River by reason of his employment as Executive
Director of The Friends of the Poudre or as a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the
Poudre; and
WHEREAS,the Board has issued an advisory opinion that Mayor Pro Tem Wanner does not
have a conflict of interest with regard to the proposed floodplain regulations; and
WHEREAS, Section 2-569(e) of the City Code provides that all advisory opinions and
recommendations of the Board be placed on the agenda for the next special or regular City Council
meeting, at which time the City Council shall determine whether to adopt such opinions and
recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the City has reviewed the opinion and recommendations of the Board and
wishes to.adopt the same.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Opinion No. 2000-1 of the Ethics Review Board, a copy of which is attached hereto
and incorporated herein by this reference as Exhibit"A,"has been submitted to and reviewed by the
City Council, and the Council hereby adopts the opinion and recommendation contained therein.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 6th day of June, A.D.
2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk