[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: Procedure for consideration of election code changes tonight--Item 5C

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Sender: Cowles, Macon

Council members have been getting calls about part of the Campaign Finance reporting measures under consideration as Item 5C on the Agenda for the June 4, 2013 meeting. In particular, people are concerned about changes to the definition
 of a political committee and the changes to the reporting requirements for political committees embodied in Option A and Option B. No such concern has been expressed about the change in the reporting schedules for candidate committees, unofficial candidate
 committees or issue committees. Political committee issues are a bit like a mobile: you touch one part of it, and all the other parts start to move.
 
Responding to the concern about political committee changes, staff will present a revised draft of Emergency Ordinance 7904 that removes all changes related to political committees.
 
Furthermore, responding to the newness of the substantive change regarding regulating corporate money in local election contests and the enforcement thereof, staff is going to present the substantive change proposed for section 13-2-23
 “Contributions by a Corporation” (found at lines 5-8 of packet page 199) and the enforcement provision posted on the Hotline by me on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 4:42 PM as a separate non-emergency ordinance for consideration tonight on first reading. Should
 Council wish to move the ordinance forward to second reading, the intervening time will give Council and the community time to reflect on the ordinance and present ideas related to the participation of corporations in local elections.



Macon Cowles
Boulder City Councilor