2013_0814_Ethics Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

August 14, 2013 V. Discuss Section 5 of the Ethics Code EXTRACT OF MINUTES of MEETING of THE CITY COUNCIL of THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota, was held on the 12'h day of June, 2006, at 6.00 p.m. The following members were present: Mayor Klausing, and Council Members lb-lan, Kough, l lasch a, and Pust. Council Member Klausing introduced the following resolution and moved ed its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 10408 RESOLUTION ADOPTING A CODE of ETHICS WHEREAS, it is the Council's desire to create and maintain ethical standards that guide Public Officials in the transaction of public business; and WHEREAS., the Council has determined the most effective way to do so is to adopt and enforce a Code of Ethics that guides the conduct of Public Officials: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Roseville City Council, that the following Code of Ethics is hereby adopted: 0013E of ETHICS FOR PU13LIC OFFICIALS IN THE CITY of ROS VILL Purpose Officials in the public service must maintain the highest possible standards of ethical conduct in their transactions of public business. Such standards must be clearly defined and known to the public as well as to the Public Officials. Violations of the ethical standards in this ordinance are punishable by the City Council and are not to be deemed criminal misdemeanors of any other type of crime except as those behaviors or activities may separately be determined to be criminal under state or federal law, Section 1. Declaration o folic The proper operation of democratic government requires that Public Officials he independent, impartial and responsible to the people; that government decisions and polio be made in the proper channels of the government structure; that public office not 1