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So again, this is this is actually something that the CCP meeting or the committee actually wanted to have last year.

And so it was worked on in the summer.

And I had been working with this with Anna Holmes from Legal.

And the intent was to have a better streamline process to understand or have a better understanding for board members and commissioners of expectations as they are serving through the city of Bloomington.

And so we I actually kind of mirrored something of this to the city's HR policy handbook.

So the main concerns were just trying to figure out what's expected of them in terms of attendance, uh how to act as or how to address of themselves as they are.

So they're literally it's just let me rewind and stand.

All right, good evening.

So essentially what we are doing here is just to have some an expectation of all board members and commissioners throughout the city, and the intent is for new members and existing members, they are to sign this so that if there is any behavioral issues or any things that come or that are violated, we can bring this up.

And this gives the council a better streamlined process to remove board members and commissioners if they need to.

So again, um this just kind of goes over the code of conduct and how to interact, um, representing the commission, basically just trying to make sure that they're not folks aren't going rogue and and you know saying things outside of the commission and speaking on behalf of the commission, especially if they don't have approval or authority.

Definitely highlighting the conflict of interest because uh several of the boards and commissions have people that have had some conflicts and having to accuse themselves, um, or should be recusing themselves.

So just kind of goes over and highlights this information.

Um we are very active and engaged community, and so political involvement, just making sure that they are not representing themselves as the member of the board or commission that they're serving as they are um involved in political activities, not saying that people cannot, because democracy looks well and people are um involved, however, you just cannot represent the city and your capacity as a commissioner or board member uh at these events, and then again the biggest thing is highlighting and outlining um attendance as well and knowing what is expected and what happens when they miss consecutive meetings or regular scheduled meetings in any 12-month period, and then this just has them sign it, and uh it is on file with us, and then this also will go into hand-on with training.

So we are in the process right now of trying to um finalize the training for staff liaisons right now, but also the part two to this is to have board members and commissioners also go forth in training in terms of you know expectations kind of going over this in detail with as well and having them sign it.

So that my goal is to have all of this as it is approved to be done within the first quarter of 2026, and I apologize that it's taken so long to get to you all, but we have it.

Um, and the only thing that I was gonna say in terms of uh feedback is um as we brought up several times instead of citizen and making sure that we put resident.

Um that is a huge thing uh that I wanted to highlight that's kind of clear that I want to change that as well.

Um and that's all any questions.

All right, so any questions.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Yes, small professional.

Thank you.

On the um the conflict of interest piece.

I heard from someone on the board of, I think it was the board of housing quality appeals.

There are certain circumstances where um people have had to recuse themselves and that um compromised quorum.

So I'm I'm just wondering how often does that happen and what are uh the mechanisms that we could potentially put in place to prevent that from happening.

That is a good question.

I think it also might be well, number one, I think the quorum issue is now ceased because they are now full.

And so that was the biggest thing is they were working with a little tiny body, and those that were there um had to recuse themselves.

I do believe that was an issue with the mayoral appointment, and as a result, um I think the person ended up having to um resign because it was just too many conflicts that were happening there.

So that person ended up resigning early on in the summer.

So hopefully we don't run into that as an issue because quorum will or quorum won't be an issue.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Um items, one also on conflict of interest.

I think it's kind of implicit there, but I wonder if we actually want to say uh to financially gain.

Um like his personal gain is like an ambiguous concept.

Like if we vote on like a bike lane, I bike in the city, I get I have been under that.

You know, like also as statutorily defined, like I'm fighting council members.

I'm pretty sure like it's defined as like a financial interest and all the disclosure requirements there around that, including the family members, I guess, as direct director here.

But that might be helpful to like I've just found in my time on council that people don't have a good, like there's not a good kind of understanding of what a conflict of interest is or means, and it actually does have like definition as applied to us anyway through the state law and mirroring that as a financial conflict might be helpful.

Um one other thing, rather feedback.

Um second is um public involvement piece, um reflecting on that.

I mean uh speaking in my own uh beginnings in politics in Blue Tin when I was running for office in 2019, like I I told people that I served on the commission on sustainability.

It was like part of my bio, and like you know, people people want to know how you're engaged in like civic uh space, basically, and we want people to engage in civic space to serve on boards and commissions, and we want them to be active politically as well.

As long as they're not my I guess my gut is like maybe this is overly um uh limiting, and that like as long as they're not representing themselves as like uh or as long as they're not holding themselves out to holding themselves out to represent the city or represent its views or represent the commission, which is already kind of covered elsewhere.

I guess personally I don't have a problem with folks saying like the areas of public service they're engaged in uh as part of uh being engaged in uh political participation.

So I'm curious to know what others think and also just think a little bit more about that provision and where it's maybe what is kind of where it's coming from, or if it could be more yeah, narrowly crafted.

I don't know.

I when I was running um there was a Bloomington fire fighter who knocked some doors for me, and one of the he like went out of his way to make very clear, like I am on the I am in the fire department, I'm not representing the fire department.

So I think there are some ways around that, and it's it was like well taken at the door and everything.

So I don't know.

I also am not sure what his specific instructions were under BFD, and this was under a former administration.

Or maybe just change it in the language, shower friends from representing themselves or as a representative of the forum of the city.