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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />� <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />1'7 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />2'7 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />3'7 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />Ethics Commission Meeting Minutes <br />Wednesday, August 12, 2015 <br />Page 5 <br />that education was really important and she wanted to be excited to get people <br />more involved in their community. <br />Ms. McCormick noted there were essentially two arms to municipal government: <br />the city employees governed under the direction of the City Manager subject to a <br />document created in 2012 referencing that specific discipline policy and examples <br />of what constituted disciplinary cause (e.g. offensive or disrespectful behavior or <br />offensive language or conduct with the public) and affecting all �'��ipal officers <br />� <br />or employees. Ms. McCormick opined a good starting poin� ould be to create <br />similar expectations for anyone serving on a city adviso /�� rd or commission <br />that they would not be rude or discourteous to the public����/////////%�,.. <br />Ms. McCormick identified the document rf <br />comments related to the June 22, 2015 City <br />Code addressing conflicts of interest. Ms. <br />ments were also available with further res� <br />lar document to the City Council durlr�g � <br />Core Values Statement. <br />b}�° Ms. Ram�"; �, 'uring her <br />, <br />meeting, as the �P-2 Ethical <br />��k reported tliat other docu- <br />��€��ad provided that particu- <br />ussion in looking at the IAP <br />While the Cit�y Manager ove��sees city employees�as the second component of <br />municipal government, Ms. 1V��������� r�4ted that the City Council oversaw the <br />City Manager and advisory cornmissions and boards; and opined if a policy was <br />already in place for city staff, she found it no stretch to have a similar document <br />for its advisory commissions. Ms. McCormick reported that she had one council <br />member state to her that these incidents were a matter of personality; and stated <br />i%�,, <br />that she fou �� %����� ttitude to 1� sidestepping the issue. With mos� advisory <br />��'���i� „ <br />commissio��rs ho'�ng jobs �a��well able to check their personal behavior or <br />conduc ����nselv �� �����1y and retain their jobs, any examples of them being <br />cond���ef���� �� Y g p Y <br />�'� m or rude which she'd heard exam les of were ver con- <br />g �° ;� was no place for it. If you step into public office, Ms. McCor- <br />cernin and '���� <br />�����?ed yo��'''�%e then called upon to display certain levels of decorum to the <br />Ms. Mc��rmick expressed her opinion that Roseville was a great city, and when <br />�� <br />she he� about the City Council's commitment to community engagement, she <br />had �''t with City Manager Trudgeon and individual council members to get to <br />���' them better. However, Ms. McCormick opined that she thought any of <br />�; <br />�em, based on her favorable impression of each, would be appalled by such be- <br />havior; and without something in place to address the 1% needing it and provid- <br />ing recourse and assurance that a policy was in place, there would be no way for <br />the city to get better and improve the process. Ms. McCormick further opined this <br />would provide a way to measure and evaluate that improvement in responding to <br />its citizens; and expressed her hope the Ethics Commission would look into this <br />further. <br />