Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group

Legal basis

• City Council direction, December 19, 2017 (2017-12-19) · creates · Council direction to the city manager to form a campaign finance and elections working group source
• Working group charter, City Council agenda item 6B, January 4, 2018 (2018-01-04) · governs · Establishment of a Working Group for analysis of and recommendations to the city council concerning changes to the city of Boulder Charter and Code provisions addressing Campaign Finance, Initiative, Referendum and other Election rules and addressing other Election matters source source

Appointed by

City Manager. The city manager appointed the members, with the advice and consent of City Council. source source as of 2018-01-04

How

The city manager solicited letters of interest from January 8, 2018, made an initial selection by January 19, and brought the proposed members to council for review at the January 23, 2018 study session; council gave advice and consent. · one-time recruitment, January 2018 · city-council (advice and consent; reviewed at the January 23, 2018 study session) source source source source as of 2018-01

Seats

11 source source as of 2018-08-14

Seat types

• Representative(s) of the League of Women Voters of Boulder County (need not be a city resident) designated
• Person(s) who helped draft the 1999 citizen-initiated campaign finance reform measure for the City Charter qualified
• A person associated with Colorado Ethics Watch or a similar organization (need not be a city resident) designated
• Person(s) who served on candidate or ballot measure committees in recent city elections qualified
• City residents with a demonstrated interest in election matters at-large

source source source as of 2018-01-04

Term

not applicable: A one-time working group with no terms: members served until it delivered its final report (due August 31, 2018; delivered December 11, 2018). source

Term limit

not applicable: A one-time working group with no terms, so no term limit; the charter ends its meetings at the final report. source

Staggering

not applicable: A one-time working group appointed all at once in January 2018, with no terms to stagger. source source

Powers

advisory. Decides: Nothing; it studied the Charter and Code provisions on campaign finance, initiative, referendum, recall and other election matters and gave options and recommendations (consensus not required).. To council: An April 17, 2018 report recommending Charter amendments, which council referred to the November 2018 ballot as Ordinances 8272, 8273 and 8274 (all adopted by the electorate on November 6, 2018); and a December 11, 2018 final report on campaign finance disclosure, which led to Ordinance 8317 repealing and re-enacting BRC Title 13 (adopted March 5, 2019). Its final report also floated an election commission, which was not created. source source source source source source source source as of 2019-03-05

Council liaison

not applicable: The group's charter provides no council liaison and no council-member seats: council directed its formation and gave advice and consent on the city manager's appointments, and staff from the City Attorney's Office, City Clerk and City Manager's Office supported it. source source

Staff liaison

City Attorney's Office (project manager), with the City Clerk's Office and City Manager's Office; outside election-law counsel advised · David Gehr, Kathy Haddock, Lynnette Beck, Tammye Burnette, Rewa Ward, Geoff Wilson source source source as of 2019-08-25

Relations

• City Manager appoints Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group · with the advice and consent of City Council source
• Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group recommends to City Council source
• City Attorney's Office staffs Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group · project manager (a member of the City Attorney's Office) source
• City Clerk's Office staffs Campaign Finance and Elections Working Group · city staff (the City Clerk sat with the City Attorney's Office staff), 2018 source source

History

• 2018-01-04 · created · Council directed the city manager to form the group on December 19, 2017; its charter was presented to council on January 4, 2018 and members were appointed in January 2018. source source
• 2018-12-11 · dissolved · The December 11, 2018 study session on its final report was set to confirm the group had met its charter goals and allow it to end; a drafting subcommittee of four members then helped draft Ordinance 8317 (introduced February 19, 2019; adopted March 5, 2019). source source