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VI. Discuss August <br />Ethics Tip <br />City of Roseville Ethics Tip <br />August 2013 <br />Our responsibilities for CONFIDENTIALITY <br />•'• You serve on the Roseville Planning Commission. In a closed meeting of the <br />Commission, you are privy to preliminary, confidential discussions about the <br />possibility of plans to rezone an area as commercial. Can you use this <br />information to buy up property in the area for your own financial advantage? <br />•'* Through your work as a department head for a division within the City of <br />Roseville, you are aware that bids for certain contracts are to be requested in <br />the coming months. Before the bidding process is made public, can you use <br />your inside knowledge to help your wife's company position itself to <br />successfully compete for the contract? <br />In the City of Roseville Code of Ethics (Section 3. Ethical Considerations, B. Use of <br />Confidential Information), it states: <br />No Public Official shall use information gained as a Public Official which is not <br />generally made available to and /or is not known to the public, to directly or indirectly <br />gain anything of value. <br />The Code (Section 2) defines Public Official as: <br />Any person that has been elected to office, appointed to a City board or commission, or <br />hired by the City to serve as a department head or assistant department head. This <br />includes: <br />a. Members of the City Council and Mayor; <br />b. The department head and assistant department head of each City <br />department; <br />c. Any person that has been appointed by the Roseville City Council. This <br />would include City commission, board, and task force members; and <br />d. The City manager. <br />In either of the scenarios above, it would be against the Code of Ethics to use the <br />confidential information you have obtained for your own financial advantage. <br />SENT ON BEHALF OF THE ROSEVILLE ETHICS COMMISSION <br />