55B - RESO CITY TICKET & PASS POLICY

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Resolution for FPPC Ticket Distribution Policy April 6, 2009 Page 2 at the behest of a designated official, i.e., to a third party, accomplish those same public purposes; and 3) a provision prohibiting the transfer by the official of such tickets except to members of the official's immediate family, solely for their personal use. The regulation also requires that the City disclose on its website all complementary tickets distributed to or by its designated officials under the policy. Such disclosure is to be made within 30 days after the distribution on a form provided by the FPPC (Form 802). The information disclosed must include 1) the name of the person or organization receiving the tickets; 2) a description of the event; 3) the date of the event; 4) the face value of the ticket; 5) the number of tickets provided to each person or organization; 6) if the ticket was behested (given to a third person oh behalf of the official), the name of the official who behested the ticket; and 7) a description of the public purpose under which the distribution was made or, alternatively, that the ticket will be treated as income by the official. There are numerous exceptions to the regulation. Among those are: where the designated official pays face value for the ticket, where the designated official performs a official function at the event on behalf of the City; or where the ticket is given directly to the designated official but must be disclosed on the official's Form 700. Additionally, the regulation does not apply to tickets or passes distributed by the City to non-designated officials, to events where there is no admission fee, or to civic, community and cultural activities such as employee recognitions, neighborhood events, state of the city addresses and community prayer programs. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this item. 55B-2