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Home My WebLink AboutORDINANCES - 02251992 - 92-9 ORDINANCE NO. 92 -9 (Reporting Requirements for County General Purpose Committees and Disclosure of Expenditures and Reporting of Independent Expenditures by Candidates and Committees . ) The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) . SECTION I . SUMMARY. This Ordinance amends the Fair Campaign Ordinance (Ordinance 'Code sections 530-2 . 222, 530-2 . 802, 530- 2 . 804 ) , to extend the existing campaign disclosure requirements to County general purpose committees and to add additional reporting requirements for candidates and committees as to expenditures and independent expenditures . This ordinance also adds section 530-2 . 403 , increasing the contribution limit on in- kind contributions of office space . . SECTION II . Section 530-2 . 222 of the County Ordinance Code is amended, to apply to County general purpose committees which support or oppose candidates for County office or local ballot measures to be voted on only in Contra Costa County, to read: 530-2 . 222 Limitations on Filing reguirements . Notwith- standing any other provisions in this chapter, all filing requirements found in this chapter which are additional to or different from those set forth in Chapter 4 of the Political Reform Act (Gov. Code, §§ 84100 et seq. ) shall apply only to candidates seeking election in Contra Costa County, their controlled committees or committees formed primarily to support or oppose their candidacies, to committees formed primarily to support or oppose the qualification of, or passage of, a local ballot measure which is being voted on only in Contra Costa County, and to County general purpose committees active only in Contra Costa County, which support or oppose candidates for County office or the qualification of or passage of local ballot measures which are being voted on only in Contra Costa County. •(Ords . 92 9 § 2, 92-1 § 3, 86-48 . ) SECTION III . Section 5.30-2 .403 is added to the County Ordinance Code to increase the contribution limit on in-kind contributions of campaign office space, to read: 530-2 .403 . In-Kind Contribution of Campaign Office Space. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this chapter, in a single county election cycle, a person or political committee may ,give up to $5,000 in in-kind contributions of campaign office space and a candidate may accept one or more in-kind contributions of campaign office space which do not exceed an aggregate amount of $5, 000 in value. (Ords . 92- 9 § 3 . ) SECTION IV. Section 530-2 .802 of the County Ordinance Code is amended, to add reporting requirements for county general purpose committees supporting or opposing candidates for County office or local ballot measures voted on only in Contra Costa County, to require reporting of expenditures in campaign statements and to require independent expenditure reports, to read:. 530-2 . 802 Candidate and Committee Reports . (a) Each candidate, each committee supporting or opposing. a candidate for county office; each committee supporting or opposing a local ballot measure which is being voted on only in Contra Costa and each county general purpose committee which supports or opposes candidates for county office or local ballot measures being voted on only in Contra Costa County, shall file a campaign statement in the county clerk-election division office, on every date a statement is required by the Political Reform Act covering the same time period as the statement filed pursuant to state law and an additional statement by 12 : 00 noon on the -last Friday before the election covering the period between the previous statement filed and 12 : 00 midnight of the last Thursday before the election . This filing must be timely .received by the filing officer and is not accomplished by deposit in the mail . This. statement shall include, in addition to all matters required by this section, the same disclosures required for the last campaign statement before the election by the Political Reform Act. (b) Each committee supporting or opposing the qualification of a local ballot measure to be voted on only in Contra Costa County shall file in the county clerk's elections division office, a statement of organization and a campaign statement on every date such statements are required by the Political Reform Act covering the same time period as the statement filed pursuant to state law, and additional campaign statements on the fifth day after filing the statement of organization and the fifth day of every month thereafter until petitions are filed or the deadline for filing petitions, whichever is earlier. The closing date for the period covered by an additional campaign statement shall be five days prior to the deadline for filing the statement. (c) IIn addition to campaign statements, each candidate, each county general purpose committee, and each committee supporting or opposing a candidate for county office or the qualification or passage of a local ballot measure which is being voted on only in Contra Costa County, which makes independent expenditures for or against any candidate for county office or for or against the qualification of, or passage of any local ORDINANCE NO. 92-9 -2- ballot measure, shall file an independent .expenditure report in ' the County Clerk' s election division, on every date a report is required by the Political Reform Act covering the same time period as the report filed pursuant to state law, and an additional report by 12:00 noon on the last Friday before the election covering the period between the previous report filed and 12 : 00 midnight of the last Thursday before the election. . This filing must be timely received by the filing ,officer and is not accomplished by deposit in the mail . Each independent expenditure report shall contain the same disclosures required by Government Code section 84203 . 5 (b) . (Ords . 92- 9 , § 4 , 92-1 § 4 , 91-10, 84-14, 84-9 . ) SECTION V. Section 530-2 . 804 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to apply to County general purpose committees supporting or opposing candidates for County office or local ballot measures to be voted on only in Contra Costa County and to require reporting of expenditures, to read: 530-2 . 804 Campaign Statement . Each County campaign statement required to be filed by candidates for County office, county general purpose committees , committees supporting or opposing a candidate for County office, or committees supporting or opposing the qualification of, or passage of, a local ballot measure which is being voted on only in Contra Costa County shall contain: ( 1 ) (a ) The total amount of all contributions received during the period covered by the campaign statement that equalled twenty-five dollars , or more, and (b) the total of all contributions of less than that cumulative amount . ( 2 ) If the- cumulative amount of contributions from a person is more than twenty-five dollars and less than one hundred dollars and a contribution has been received from that person during the period covered by the campaign statement, the statement shall include the date and amount of each contribution, such as monetary or nonmonetary (in-kind contribution) . In the case of in-kind contributions, the fair market value shall be reported . If the value is unknown, a written valuation shall be obtained from the donor and this valuation reported. ( 3 ) If the cumulative amount of contributions from a person is one hundred dollars or more and a contribution has been received from that person during the period covered by the campaign statement, the statement shall contain the same disclosures required by Government Code section 84211(f) . (4 ) The statement shall contain the same disclosure of expenditures required by Government Code section 84211(b) , (h) , (i ) , ( ] ) , (m) , (s ) and. (t) . ORDINANCE NO. 92- 9 -3- (5 ) Candidates and committees need not duplicate any }`� reports of contribution -and/or loan and expenditures required by o state law but may certify that reports made pursuant to this section are in addition to those made pursuant to state law. (Ords . 92-9 § 5, 92-1, § 5, 91-10 , 84-9 . ) SECTION VI . • EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage, and within 15 daysafter passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for and against it in the Martinez News Gazette a newspaper published in this County. PASSED on February 25 , 1992 by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Powers , Fanden, Schroder, Torlakson, McPeak NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the Board and County Administrator By: Deputy Board Chair [SEAL] MAM/jh J-7:a:\mam\ozd\com.f ORDINANCE NO. 92-9 ` -4-