QUESTION
What are the advantages of pursuing a charter revision over the two proposed pieces of legislation?
1:18:51
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The General Counsel for the Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) recommends pursuing a charter revision process to examine changes to post-employment restrictions in Chapter 68 of the city code.
- It would provide multiple public hearings and extensive outreach to gather input from stakeholders
- It would allow consideration of how changes fit with other related post-employment restrictions
- It would give more time to evaluate the impact of recent substantial changes before making additional revisions
- Charter revisions are the historical method for modifying Chapter 68
Shahana K. Hanif
1:18:51
Are you making a recommendation that we pursue a charter of revision and and go through that route as opposed to these two pieces of legislation.
Ethan Carrier
1:19:03
We right.
1:19:04
We're recommending that if the city council wants to contemplate changing the restrictions in chapter 68, in particular, the post employment restrictions, that that would be the better process because it would really provide sort of multiple public hearings and, you know, sort of massive outreach to get all the people who are kind of stakeholders in this, the opportunity to get to weigh in.
1:19:29
You know, in particular, the the public servants are gonna be affected by this, who when they become private citizens are gonna have their speech restricted with regard to their communications with city government.
1:19:41
And the people in city government now who do the hard work of trying to recruit good people into these city positions that that the like, curing what those people think is a thing that the Charter Revision Commission could do, and it could really take its time to figure out how changes to this post employment restriction fit into what is really an inner related set of post employment restrictions, the lifetime particular matter ban and the confidential information ban, you know, work with this restriction.
1:20:14
And so when you alter one piece of that, I was trying to make sure it fits in with the other.
1:20:20
Which is not to say that there there might not be room for some improvement, though we did just have changes come into effect just over 2 years ago, it's pretty substantial ones.
1:20:32
And our thought is it it might make more sense to at least in large part.
1:20:37
Let's see how those go.
1:20:39
The last version was worked for 32 years.
1:20:43
Let's see how this version works for more than just couple of years before we start changing it again.
1:20:49
But the chart revision process, we feel like, is a a a a better way of of doing the hard work of getting this right.
1:20:56
And so that's our and it's also the way that the charter has oh, you know, our the chapter 68 has always been changed in the past.
1:21:03
So it feels like the 3rd best process.