Agenda - Council Work Session - 06/28/2022

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RELEVANT LINKS: • Political contributions. • Services to assist an official in the performance of official duties. • Services of insignificant monetary value. • A recognizing or similar memento izin individual services in a field plaque � g of specialty or to a charitable cause. • A trinket or memento costing $5 or less. ■ Informational material of unexceptional value. • Food or a beverage given at a reception,meal or meeting away from the P y an organization recipient's lace of work b before whom the recipient makes a speech or answers questions as part of a program. (This P Probabl exception permits only the principal speakers at �' meetings to receive gifts of food or beverage). Gifts given because of the recipient's membership in a group, a majority of whose members are not local officials, if an equivalent gift is offered to or given to the other members of the group. • Gifts between family members,unless the gift is given on behalf of someone who is not a member of that family. • Food or beverages given b a national or multi--state organization of g g y governmental organizations or officials at a reception or meal to attendees at a conference sponsored by that organization if a majority of the dues to the organization are aid from public funds and an g P equivalent gift is given or offered to all other attendees. Minn.stat.§465.03.Kelly v. The law rohibits ifts to ci officials, not to cities. Thus, an interested rr2 as i Finance acid p � � Pa person can give a gift to a city. If the giver has no control over who will Public Disclosarre�3d, 679 p g g N.w.2d 178 Minn.Ct.App. receive the gift and the gift was not targeted to a specific person, perhaps a 2004 city official could benefit from that gift. If the person who benefits from the gift has an control over its use, the gift would likely be prohibited. g y For example, if an interested person gave a city five tickets to a football p � ggame, the council members probably could not decide to use the tickets for � themselves. Minn.5tat.ch. l oA. Metropolitan cities with a population over 50,000 are subject to additional See LMC information memo, p . D acral Corict a�f'�i�erest regulations. Under the Ethics in Government Act, local officials in these ff for more information, cities are also prohibited from receiving gifts from "lobbyists" and " rind als" although there are exceptions similar to those for the gift law. p P Minnesota Campaign The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board issues Finance and Public Disclosure Board. advisory opinions regarding the lobbyist gift ban. These opinions may be relevant to any Minnesota city struggling with the application of a gift ban to a particular situation. League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 6/712022 Elected Officials and Council Structure and Role Chapter 6 1 Page I I