Ethics Board

City of Saratoga Springs Board of Ethics Minutes Thursday - March 9, 2017 Present: Justin Hogan – Chair, Brendan Chudy, John Ellis, and Marilyn Rivers, with Tony Izzo as Advisor and Trish Bush. Absent: None Public: John Kaufmann Meeting was called to order at 5:30 PM in the City Council Room. Minutes from December and January meetings were reviewed. Changes were requested to the January meeting. Motion to accept the January minutes with changes: Brendan Chudy; Second: Justin Hogan. Approved: all. Motion carried. Minutes from December minutes will be corrected and emailed to the Board for approval and posting. OLD BUSINESS: Possible Code of Ethics revisions. The Board reviewed suggestions to the Code of Ethics as submitted by Tony Izzo. After discussion, Tony will continue to look into a definition/interpretation of Ex-parte that would be appropriate for our Code as well as make a revision to the proposed changes to Section 13-3(G). NEW BUSINESS: 2017 Disclosures. Trish Bush will review and organize the 2017 Disclosure statements received to date and prepare them for review at the April meeting. John Kaufmann requested to speak. He requests that documents that are to be discussed at future Board of Ethics meetings be uploaded to the website with the Agenda so the public would be aware of what is being discussed. The Board responded that this is not appropriate as any document contents would be for discussion and only made public after the Board’s agreement to adopt. Justin Hogan moved to go into Executive Session to discuss Inquiry #1-2017. The Board entered executive session at 6:45 and returned to regular session at 6:50 PM. Tony will draft a response for Board review. Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Justin Hogan, second: Marilyn Rivers. Meeting Adjourned at 6:52 PM on March 9, 2017 Next meeting: scheduled for April 13, 2017 at 5:30 PM Respectfully submitted: Trish Bush, City Attorney’s office