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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Ethics Commission Meeting Minutes Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Page 5 that education was really important and she wanted to be excited to get people more involved in their community. Ms. McCormick noted there were essentially two arms to municipal government: the city employees governed under the direction of the City Manager subject to a document created in 2012 referencing that specific discipline policy and examples of what constituted disciplinary cause (e.g. offensive or disrespectful behavior or offensive language or conduct with the public) and affecting all municipal officers or employees. Ms. McCormick opined a good starting point would be to create similar expectations for anyone serving on a city advisory board or commission that they would not be rude or discourteous to the public. Ms. McCormick identified the document referenced by Ms. Ramundt during her comments related to the June 22, 2015 City Council meeting, as the IAP-2 Ethical Code addressing conflicts of interest. Ms. McCormick reported that other docu- ments were also available with further research, but she had provided that particu- lar document to the City Council during their discussion in looking at the IAP Core Values Statement. While the City Manager oversees city employees, as the second component of municipal government, Ms. McCormicic noted that the City Council oversaw the City Manager and advisory commissions and boards; and opined if a policy was already in place for city staff, she found it no stretch to have a similar document for its advisory commissions. Ms. McCormicic reported that she had one council member state to her that these incidents were a matter of personality; and stated that she found that attitude to be sidestepping the issue. With most advisory commissioners holding jobs and well able to check their personal behavior or conduct themselves accordingly and retain their jobs, any examples of them being condescending, bullying or rude which she'd heard examples of were very con- cerning and there was no place for it. If you step into public office, Ms. McCor- mick opined you were then called upon to display certain levels of decorum to the public. Ms. McCormick expressed her opinion that Roseville was a great city, and when she heard about the City Council's commitment to community engagement, she had met with City Manager Trudgeon and individual council members to get to know them better. However, Ms. McCormick opined that she thought any of them, based on her favorable impression of each, would be appalled by such be- havior; and without something in place to address the 1% needing it and provid- ing recourse and assurance that a policy was in place, there would be no way for the city to get better and improve the process. Ms. McCormick further opined this would provide a way to measure and evaluate that improvement in responding to its citizens; and expressed her hope the Ethics Commission would look into this further.