Ethics in City Government.......... ..........
Charles A. Harball Office of City Attorney
City Attorney 201 First Avenue East
P.O. Box 1997
Kalispell, MT 59903-1997
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
MEETING DATE:
Mayor Tammi Fisher
and Kalispell City Council
Charles Harball, Interim City Manager
Ethics in City Government
February 13, 2012 — Workshop
Tel 406.758.7709
Fax 406.758.7771
charball@kalispell.com
BACKGROUND: As requested by the Council, a tutorial will be presented during the February
131h workshop on Ethics in City Government. Although we will field questions and discuss other
issues of ethics, as the Council may wish, we will primarily cover the area of conflicts of interest
and the council person's obligations and restrictions in this regard. We will provide the state and
local law that applies as well as attorney general opinions regarding specific situations. The
distinctions between legislative, executive and judicial actions by the Council will be discussed.
We will also examine a number of hypothetical situations so that a fairly wide gamut of ethical
challenges can be explored.
Respectfully submitted,
Charlesall, Iterim City Manager