QUESTION
What is the process for passing legislation regarding changes in post-employment restrictions for public servants?
1:24:37
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62 sec
Ethan Carrier from the Conflicts of Interest Board explains that significant changes to post-employment restrictions should involve a thorough process with input from multiple stakeholders and sufficient time for consideration.
- Such changes typically involve charter revision commissions, which have handled related legislation in the past.
- This allows for a comprehensive review and hearing testimony from various parties.
- Council Member Lincoln Restler questions why there was limited review of bills introduced over a year ago.
- The 2019 Charter Revision Commission imposed stricter post-employment bans for certain high-level officials.
Lincoln Restler
1:24:37
Why are we not equipped to pass legislation here?
Ethan Carrier
1:24:41
Well, I certainly did not say that you're not equipped to pass legislation.
Gale A. Brewer
1:24:44
Okay.
Ethan Carrier
1:24:44
I'm just suggesting that for a change that's gonna impact so many public servants, And that is a really complicated change in the post employment restrictions that there are a lot of different stakeholders who should be heard from and that it should be done over some time where people really to spend a lot of time, like a group people really get to spend a lot of time sort of thinking about this and hearing testimony from a lot of people.
1:25:12
And as short revision commissions are the entity that have done that for chapter 68 in the past.
1:25:19
It just seems like the best process for us.
1:25:21
Let's say there might not be other processes, just that that would be sort of the best practice.
Lincoln Restler
1:25:28
Yeah.
1:25:28
You also testified that you weren't familiar with you had limited time to review our bills.
1:25:32
We introduced them well over a year ago.
1:25:35
So, you know, hope that I believe there was ample more than ample time to review them.