City Council Minutes 2014 02 24 SP

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City Council Special Meeting Minutes February 24, 2014 Page 2 of 11 in the state which is included within the Home Rule Charter. This speaks to the commitment the community has made to ethics. Mr. Krob has practiced in Colorado for twenty years and is an ethics expert; a sole practitioner specializing in local government law; serves as Town Attorney for Winter Park, Frasier, Hot Sulfur Springs, and Grandby; served as County Court Judge in Grand County for ten years and was a District Court Magistrate for five years. Mr. Krob has experience with ethics as a law practitioner; a member of the Judiciary and an academic. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University Of Denver School Of Law, teaching ethics and is the co-editor of an ethics column and a member of the Ethics Committee for the Colorado Bar Association. Special Counselor Krob outlined the ethics training agenda to highlight the City's general ethics policy; a comparison between the Louisville Municipal Code of Ethics and the Colorado State Statutes; the inter-relationship between the City Council members and City employees; quasi-judicial proceedings, and some studies of hypothetical situations. GENERAL POLICIES UNDERLYING ETHICS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS • Open government and public participation. • Those entrusted with positions in the City government must commit to adhering to the letter and spirit of the Code of Ethics. • Those in positions of public responsibility should be committed to high levels of ethical and moral conduct. • Promote people's faith their government is acting for the good of the public. • Promote a harmonious and trusting relationship between the City government and the people it serves. • Strive to avoid situations that may create public perceptions of violations of the Code of Ethics. Perceptions of such violations can have the same negative impacts on public trust as actual violations. • Promote honest government. • Prohibit use of public office for private gain. • Encourage quality individuals to serve in public office by not placing undue limitations on their ability to earn a living and pursue other interests. LOUISVILLE CODE OF ETHICS vs. COLORADO STATE STATUTES The Louisville Code of Ethics is the more restrictive of the two. In instances where the Louisville Code of Ethics and the Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.) both address a particular issue, both need to be considered to determine which is the more restrictive. In other instances, if the conduct is not addressed in the Code of Ethics, but addressed in C.R.S., the provisions of C.R.S. apply.