QUESTION
What monitoring occurs for individuals leaving city service to ensure compliance with lobbying registration requirements?
1:11:24
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76 sec
The Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) does not actively monitor individuals after they leave city service to ensure compliance with lobbying registration requirements.
- COIB has a limited staff of 22 people with no dedicated investigators.
- Around 20,000 public servants leave city service annually, making active monitoring impractical.
- The primary proactive measure is providing educational materials on post-employment restrictions during the city service departure process.
- Compliance relies on self-reporting and response to complaints rather than proactive monitoring by COIB.
David Carr
1:11:24
So for and this is for COVID and perhaps also the city clerk's office.
1:11:29
There are plenty of folks who leave city service, right, who who were maybe civil service employees.
1:11:34
They took tests to get their positions.
1:11:36
But then there's the folks like us in the committee, elected officials, high ranking members of agencies in the mayor's office.
1:11:42
Are there particular people that you monitor upon leaving city service based on what they do, whether they're going to not for profits or into the lobbying field.
1:11:52
There's no pro in order to make sure that they're complying with lobbying registration and whatnot if they're engaging in those activities?
1:11:59
Or is it purely reactive to complaints?
1:12:02
And allegations.
Carolyn Miller
1:12:05
We encourage the sort of the first line of proactiveness is always education.
1:12:11
So to the extent that the, you know, the depart city and city service departure checklist includes a hand out that we've created about the post employment restrictions.
1:12:22
That's the ideal scenario.
1:12:24
There's no monitoring that we do.
1:12:26
Again, we're a staff of 22 people.
1:12:28
We have no investigators, you know, as as chair wrestler noted, 20,000 or so public servants leave city service every year.
1:12:34
So this is way beyond the capacity or really probably appropriateness of the agency, but we try to educate as much as we possibly can.
