AN ORDINANCE relating to the Ethics Code; amending Sections 4.16.030 and 4.16.070 of the Seattle Municipal Code to require City Councilmembers to disclose financial interests in legislative matters under consideration by the City Council prior to participating in those matters, and creating a limited exception to the requirement that City Councilmembers disqualify themselves from participating in such matters.
The Report of the Full Council Agenda Item one Constable 118701 relating to ethics code many sections for point 16.0 39.0 70 of the code to require City Council members to disclose financial interests in legislative matters under consideration by the City Council prior to participating in those matters and creating a limited exception to the requirement that City Council members disqualify themselves from participating in such matters. The committee recommends the bill pass. The bill was held until June 20th, 2016. Thank you very much. So I'll say a few words and I'm going to basically make a motion to refer it back to the committee. I want to thank all my colleagues who are sort of following this issue. This is legislation that was presented to us by the Seattle Ethics and Elections Committee to deal with financial interests among council members and how to proceed. And and we had a recommendation that came out of committee, came out of the commission, was passed by the committee. Councilmember Burgess raised some concerns. And many people are following the issue and raised, I think, some concerns that certain warrant more discussion. And so because of that I will move to refer council bill 118701 to the Education, Equity and Governance Committee. Like any other further comments. Councilmember Member Whereas. I correct me if I'm wrong here, I didn't vote in favor of this. Are you? Well, I will correct you if you're wrong. I thought you. I think you're wrong. No, and that was just a committee vote. Just committee vote, I think. Did you attend the committee? I didn't vote yes. Okay. So then the minutes of the committee might have been sort of a moot issue now, but will will. Today with the way. It was committee. The when did it get introduced. When why are you smiling like that? You know, luckily this is all videotaped. So if you go. Back and look at the recording, my recollection, Councilmember Suarez. Is that in the in the committee, when we originally considered this bill, it was all three voted in favor of recommending that it move out of committee. It was again, there were two pieces of legislation. One had to do with us considering doing the ethics work for the city of Kirkland. It was a renewal of a contract. And the other piece came from the committee. Both came from the commission dealing with what councilmember may do and looking at legislation. Had a good conversation, good discussion, but I thought it came out of committee unanimously. But like I said, it's sort of a moot issue because we're going to send it back to committee, have more discussion from from that point. But we can always go back and look at the committee vote. Any other further discussion has been moved in. Second, those in favor of referring the bill to the Education, Equity and Governance Committee, please vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries the bill is referred. Please read the next matter into the record place.