Recommendation to request City Manager to study the feasibility of aligning councilmember and other elected officials officeholder accounts to those of state/FPPC regulations.
Thank you. Okay. We're going on to the next item, please, which is with the 2021. Item 21 is a communication from Council Member Pearce Chair, Elections Oversight Committee recommendation to request the city manager to study the feasibility of aligning Council member and other elected officials. Officeholder counts to those of State FEC regulations. Council Member Pearce. Thank you for this. We had our Elections Oversight Committee meeting a couple of weeks back where we looked at this. Right now, the municipal code sections 2.01.380 and 390 currently prohibit the use of office holder funds as transfers, loans or contributions to any other candidate for elected office. I would like to make a motion to request the City Attorney to amend l l BMC Section 2.013.80 and three nine to permit office holder funds to be used and consistent with the provisions of state law. California Government Code Sections 89510 as amended. This would include the use of office holder funds to purchase tickets to fundraising events for candidates for elected office. I ask for my colleagues support. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Not any public comment. Senior members, please cash customer support now. Yeah, I just I just want to include here that I dissented on this vote. I sit on the election committee. There's a lot of good things about getting old. But I do remember when this, uh, this ordinance changed when a previous council voted this in, and I thought it was a good idea then, and I stand by it. I don't. I can't understand why if someone contributes to my campaign, why I'm going to turn around and give that money to someone else, to that person who donated to me, did not endorse. So that is the basic premise. I realize tonight we're just looking for a study. We're not looking for that absolute decision. But that was the rationale behind my my dissent before. Thank you. Thank you. Just to clarify, I actually think the council was actually asking for a change in the municipal code. That's correct. The way I understand the motion this evening, it is a request to prepare an amendment to the ordinance which would make those changes and not a study in that this would come back to the council for a first and a second. Reading at that. Time. Okay. Thanks for that clarification. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes.