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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Amend the City of San Leandro Administrative Code to add Chapter 8 to Title 5 to Permit City Elected and Appointed Officials and City Employees the Option to Have Planning Applications that Affect Their Personal Economic Interests be Reviewed by Independent Third Parties
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council consider and approve the proposed resolution to amend the City of San Leandro Administrative Code to add administrative regulations that allow the option of an independent third party plan review for Community Development Department applications in which City of San Leandro elected officials, appointed officials, and employees may have an involved personal economic interest.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
From time to time, City elected and appointed officials, and employees ("City public official") either voluntarily submit or must submit applications (for example, to address Code violations on their property) to the Community Development Department ("CDD application") that affect real property in San Leandro in which they have a personal economic interest. To address any actual or perceived conflicts of interest under relevant State laws, and/or counter any claims of bias for or against the City public official and/or the City public official's CDD application, staff recommends to the City Council that it would be prudent to provide an option to have these CDD applications reviewed for compliance with City Codes and CDD application procedures by an independent third party, and not City staff.
All fees and costs for the independent third party's review services would be paid for by the applicant in addition to all applicable City and CDD application fees. The City would approve and contract with a list of independent third party reviewers whose fees and costs would be passed through the City to the applicant. The independent third party would anal...
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