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HomeMy WebLinkAbout053 - 09/06/1973 - REQUIRING THE DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE INTEREST BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND REQUIRING OPEN MEETINGS k ORDINANCE NO 53, 1973 BEING AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE DISCIOSURE OF PRIVATE INTEREST BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND REQUIRING OPEN MEETINGS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 Disclosure Required a Not later than 45 days after the passage of this ordinance and thereafter not more than thirty days after their election, re-election, appointment or retention in office, written disclosure, stating the items named in subsection "b" of this section, shall be made to and filed with the City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins by (1) Each member of the Council of the City of Fort Collins (2) City Manager and City Attorney Such disclosure shall also be filed by any candidate for the office of Council Member within ten days after filing acceptance of nomination with the City Clerk b Such disclosure shall include (1) The source or sources of any income, including capital gains, whether or not taxable, of the person making disclosure and such person's spouse (2) Any financial interest in excess of $10,000 00 in any business entity (3) The legal description of any interest in real property held or acquired for the purpose of resale at a profit owned by the person making disclosure or such person's spouse (4) The identity, by name, of all offices and directorships held by the person making disclosure and such person's spouse (5) The name of each creditor to whom the person making dis- closure or such person's spouse owes money in excess of $10,000 00 (6) A list of businesses with which the person making disclosure, or such person's spouse, are associated that do business with or are regulated by the City of Fort Collins and the nature of such business or regulation (7) Such additional information as the person making disclosure might desire c Any person required by this section to file a disclosure statement shall, on or before June 1 of each calendar year, file an amended statement with the City Clerk or notify the City Clerk in writing that such person has had no change of condition since the previous filing of a disclosure statement The City Clerk shall give written notice to each person required to make disclosure hereunder at least 30 days before such disclosure is required to be filed d Each disclosure statement, amended statement or a notifica- tion that no amendment is required shall be public information available to any person upon request during normal working hours e Any person subject to the provisions of this section may elect to file with the City Clerk annually a copy of such person's federal income tax return and any separate federal income tax return filed by such person's -pouse together with a statement of any invest- ments held by such person or such person's spouse which are not reflected by the income tax returns in lieu of complying with the provisions of pacts "a" to "c" of this section, which tax return and any statement filed under the provisions of this part hereof shall be public information f Any person who willfully files a false or incomplete dis- closure statement, amendment or notice that no amendment is required or who willfully files a false or incomplete copy of any federal income tax return or a false or incomplete certified statement of investments or who willfully fails to make any filing required by this section shall be guilty of a violation of the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins, punishable as a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed the limits established in Section 1-23 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Section 2 Open Meetings a Meetings of the City Council shall be open to the public in accordance with the requirements of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins All meetings of boards of the City at which any formal action is taken by such board shall also be public meetings open to the public at all times, except that the foregoing requirement for open meetings shall not apply to the Water Board, the Personnel Board and the Building and Contractors Licensing Board if such boards determine that the subject for consideration by the board is such that the best interests of the City or the public or an individual who will be affected by action of such board could be jeopardized by an open meeting b Any such meeting required to be open to the public shall be held only after full and timely notice to the public For the purpose of this provision adopting a regular meeting date and the filing of a statement of the same with the City Clerk shall be considered full and timely notice, and in the case of boards meeting on call or irregularly the filing of a notice of meeting with the City Clerk at least 24 hours before the time of such meeting shall be full and timely notice The City Clerk shall make all of such notices available to all interested members of the public In the case of meetings of the City Council, the same shall be held only in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins c The minutes of a meeting of any board of the City shall be promptly recorded and such records shall be open to public inspection provided that minutes of meetings of the Water Board, the Personnel Board and the Building and Contractors Licensing Board not open to the public in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance shall not be open to public inspection Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this :;?/,a day of , A D 973, and to be presented for final passage on he ` day of A D 1973 r ATTEST Mayor l // L City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this l�C� day of A D 1973 r ATTEST Mayor ZZL":�L- , City Clerk -3-