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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 06211988 - 2.3 w ,:R 3 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Phil Contra Phil Batchelor, �� County Administrator . Costa DATE'. June 8, 1988 CO "1t� SUBJECT: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO ELECTION CAMPAIGN ORDINANCE SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND .JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION• Introduce the attached ordinance, waive reading and fix June 28 , 1988 for adoption. BACKGROUND: ' Attached is an ordinance prepared by County, Counsel which would amend the County election campaign ordinance. The ordinance amends section 530-2. 214 of the election campaign ordinance by broadening the terms and applications of the exemption from the limits on campaign contributions (Article 530-2. 4) . Under current section 530-2 . 214, the exemption is generally not available with respect to a controlled committee' s receipt and spending of money for charitable, non-profit, civic and educational organizations and purposes. The amended section 530-2 . 214 would allow a controlled committee to receive and spend money for charitable, non-profit, civic, and educational organizations and purposes. Specifically, under the amended section 530-2 . 214, certain controlled committees would be allowed to raise, receive, and spend money for donations to charitable and non-profit organizations; memberships in civic organizations (Chamber of Commerce, NAACP, Boys ' Club, etc. ) ; education scholarships; subscriptions to newspapers; reimbursement for meals, transportation, and accommodations for governmental meetings; purchase of space in program inserts for events benefiting charitable and non-profit organizations; and compensation for contract staff work of a non-campaign nature. The or expressly declares the Board of Supervisors ' intent that every controlled committee under the exemptions be separate and apart from any committee designated and used for purposes of a , campaign for County office. The ordinance also amends section 530-2. 402 of the election campaign ordinance by increasing the upper monetary limits on contributions made for candidates in County office election campaigns. Under current section 530-2. 402, a person may not contribute, in any single election cycle, more than five hundred dollars to a candidate for County office. The amended section 530-2. 402 would allow a person to contribute up to three hundred dollars in any calendar year. Further, amended section 530-2. 402 would CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; X YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF -BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE j S : ACTION OF BOARD ON June Z 4 1_988 APPROVED AS. RECOMMENDED OTHER X REFERRED proposed ordinance to amend the County's election campaign ordinance to the Internal Operations Committee for review. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT 1 AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES:_ NOES: -AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: County Administrator ATTESTED County Counsel PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Elections Suoervisor, SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Robert Delavati Internal Operations Cte BY M382/1-83 ,DEPUTY— allow a person to contribute up to six hundred dollars in any single calendar year, provided that the candidate on whose behalf the contributions are made is a candidate for the County Office in more than one election during a single calendar year. The Elections Supervisor has reviewed the proposed amendments and has not offered any revisions to them. ORDINANCE NO. 88- (Exemptions and Individual Campaign Contribution Limits under Election Campaign Ordinance) The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisons of the County Ordinance Code) : SECTION I . SUMMARY. This ordinance amends Division 530, Election Campaign, Chapter 530-2, Fair Campaigns, Article 530- 2. 2 . , General, to broaden the terms and applications of the exemption under the County Ordinance Code, in order to permit controlled committees to raise, receive and spend money for non- profit, charitable, civic, and educational organizations and purposes not directly related to a campaign for County office. This ordinance also amends Division 530, Election Campaign, Chapter 530-2, Fair Campaigns, Article 530-2 .4, Contribution Limits, to increase the monetary limits on contributions made for candidates for County office. SECTION II. Section 530-2.214 Exemptions is amended to read: 530-2 . 214 Exemptions . Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, it does not apply to contributions placed in a controlled committee(s) of an incumbent of a County office where, ( 1 ) that incumbent designates the committee as a committee to collect funds for purposes other than a campaign for County office. (2) those funds are not used for any purpose related to a campaign by that incumbent; and (3) those funds are not transferred to or used for any other committee controlled by that incumbent which raises or receives or spends money for the purposes related to a campaign for a County office. When a controlled committee of an incumbent of a County office is designated by the incumbent to collect, and the committee collects and uses, funds for the following purposes, such funds are not collected or used for purposes of a campaign for County office, nor related to a campaign by the incumbent: (1) donations to charitable and non-profit organizations; (2) memberships in civic organizations; (3) education scholarships; (4) subscriptions to newspapers; (5) reimbursement for meals, transportation, and accommodations for governmental meetings; (6 ) purchase of space in program inserts for events benefiting charitable and non-profit organizations; or (7 ) compensation for contract staff work of a non- campaign nature. (Ord. 84-9 . ) SECTION III. Section 530-2.402 Individual campaign contributions is amended to read: 530-2.402 Individual campaign contributions (a) In a single calendar year, no person (other than the candidate or a political action committee) shall make, and no candidate or campaign treasurer shall accept, any contribution to or for a single candidate for county office or for a committee authorized in writing by the candidate to accept contributions for him, which will cause the total amount contributed by such person in support of that candidate to exceed three hundred dollars with the following exceptions. ,Lb l If a candidate for county office becomes a candidate for that office in more than one election during a single calendar year, the limit under subparagraph (a) is increased to permit additional contributions not exceeding six hundred dollars in that calendar year. jqj In addition to personal contributions within the three hundred dollar or six hundred dollar limits a person may give up to ten thousand dollars in in-kind contributions of office space and/or equipment and a candiate may accept one or more in-kind contributions of office space and/or equipment which do not exceed the aggregate amount of ten thousand dollars in value. SECTION IV. DECLARATION. The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors declares its intent that every controlled committee falling under the exemptions in County Ordinance Code § 530-2 . 214 shall be separate and apart from any committee designated and used for purposes of a campaign for County Office. SECTION V. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for and against it in the , a newspaper published in this County. (§§ 25123 & 25134 ) PASSED ON , by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the Board and County Administrator By: Deputy Board Chair [SEAL] ORDINANCE NO. 88-