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MINUTES OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION JUN 1 6 2009
City of Corpus Christi, Texas CITY SECRETARy'
5:30 p.m., May 28, 2009 S OFFICE
Legal Conference Room —5th Floor
• City Hall— 1201 Leopard
At 5:30 p.m., a quorum was present and the meeting was called to Order by
Chairperson Cramer.
Roll call was taken and the members present were: James R. Cramer, Robert N.
Corrigan, Linda Figueroa, Joseph Guzman, Harlan Heitkamp and Rick Marcantonio.
Excused absences were requested by Rebecca Esparza and Laura Hebert.
City Attorney Mary Kay Fischer was present.
The Commissioners reviewed the minutes from the May 14, 2009 meeting and the
minutes were approved unanimously.
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The Public Hearing was open and the Commissioners decided to conduct a review of
the Ordinance that was in place prior to the changes that were adopted by City Council
on May 12, 2009. City Attorney Fischer gave the members an overview of all the state
• law requirements relating to Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure under Local
Government Code Chapter 171, 176, Government Code Chapter 572 and the City's
Ethics Ordinance.
There_was discussion pertaining to the preamble and a possible amendment to address
the abstention issue and adding an additional provision that many other cities had
included in their Ethics Ordinance. Additional discussion involved economic benefits,
substantial interest, contracts with employees, duties of the• Ethics Commission and
parallel changes to be made to the forms required by the Ethics Ordinance.
Draft changes are to be prepared and presented to the Commissioners for review and
consideration at their next meeting on June 8, 2009.
Public comment was shared by Carolyn Moon who believes that the public perception is
that one-half of the City Council are in it to get their nephew a job and that the Ethics
Commission will just want to cover it up. She cautioned the Commission members
about the public perception.
No publications related to Ethics Commission were discussed by the Commission.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:00 fun. ,: •
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James R. Cramer •
Chairperson
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