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Service on the City Council is an honor and a privilege and
should not be deemed as a period of time spent learning the ins and outs of what
it takes to be a highly paid developers lobbyist.
Simply, City service should
not be considered as a process to obtain a graduate degree for future lobbying.
Sadly, we are presently deluged with ex-mayors now employed
as lobbyists exploiting their unique access to City Hall to the detriment of the
residents who initially elected them.
Therefore, to correct what, in our judgment, is an abusive
practice, we propose an ethics ordinance that bars, for a period of four years,
all ex Council members, Planning Commissioners and their family members from
representing clients before the City Council, Staff or Planning Commission.
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