City Code Section
- As used in this Chapter unless the context requires otherwise:
- A. Calendar quarter means one of the four three-month periods of January 1 to March 31, April 1 to June 30, July 1 to September 30 and October 1 to December 31.
- B. Calendar year means the period of January 1 through December 31.
- C. City director means the City Administrator, the Assistant City Administrator, the Equity Officer, the Sustainability Officer, the Deputy City Administrators or persons otherwise responsible for City service areas, and the directors or individuals in charge of City bureaus or other similar offices, excluding the Office of the City Attorney. A list of positions covered by this definition will be included in an Auditor’s Office administrative rule.
- D. City official means any City elected official; the at will staff of a City elected official; any City director as defined in this Section; or any appointee to the Prosper Portland Board of Commissioners, the Planning Commission, the Design Commission, and the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Board.
- E. Consideration includes a gift, payment, distribution, loan, advance or deposit of money or anything of value, and includes a contract, promise or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable.
- F. Official action means introduction, sponsorship, testimony, debate, voting or any other official action on any ordinance, measure, resolution, amendment, nomination, appointment, or report, or any matter, including administrative action, that may be the subject of action by the City.
- G. Lobby or lobbying or lobbies means attempting to influence the official action of City officials. Lobbying includes time spent preparing emails and letters and preparing for oral communication with a City official. Lobbying does not include:
- 1. Time spent by an individual representing their own opinion to a City official.
- 2. Time spent participating in a board, committee, working group, or commission created by City Council through approval of resolution or ordinance.
- 3. Time spent participating in a board, committee, working group, or commission created by the Mayor that adheres to state public meeting requirements.
- 4. Time spent by a City official or City employee acting in their official capacity as an official for the City.
- 5. Beginning when the City publishes any competitively bid request for proposals;
- a. Time or funds spent submitting a response to the City’s bid;
- b. Time or funds spent responding to related City information requests; and
- c. Time or funds spent negotiating terms of any contract resulting from a competitively bid request for proposals.
- 6. Time spent negotiating terms of an intergovernmental agreement.
- 7. Oral or written communication made by a representative of a labor organization that is certified or recognized, pursuant to ORS 243.650 et seq., as the exclusive bargaining representative of employees of the City, to the extent that such communications do not deal with actual or potential ordinances that are unrelated to the collective bargaining process, or implementation or application of any collective bargaining agreement provision.
- 8. Formal appearances to give testimony before public hearings or meetings of City Council.
- 9. Work performed by a contractor or grantee pursuant to a contract with or grant from the City.
- 10. Time spent by any person holding elected public office, or their specifically authorized representative, acting in their official capacity.
- 11. Time spent responding to requests for information made by City officials if:
- a. the request is made for the purpose of evaluating any actual or potential administrative action of the City;
- b. any person providing the requested information confines their responses to information sought by City officials; and
- c. to the extent any person providing the requested information attempts to influence the official action of City officials during the course of providing such information, no such person, and no lobbying entity represented by such person, stands to obtain any direct financial benefit as a result of such action.
- H. Lobbying entity means any individual, business association, corporation, partnership, association, club, company, business trust, organization or other group who lobbies either by employing or otherwise authorizing a lobbyist to lobby on that person’s behalf.
- I. Lobbyist means any individual who is authorized to lobby on behalf of a lobbying entity.
- J. Person means any individual, business association, corporation, partnership, association, club, company, business trust, organization or other group.
- K.Office of the City Administrator means the City Administrator, the Assistant City Administrator, the Equity Officer, the Sustainability Officer, and the Deputy City Administrators.
- L. Gift means something of economic value given to a City official without valuable consideration of equivalent value, including the full or partial forgiveness of indebtedness, which is not extended to others who are not City officials on the same terms and conditions; and something of economic value given to a City official for valuable consideration less than that required from others who are not City officials. However, “gift” does not mean:
- 1. Campaign contributions, as described in ORS Chapter 260.
- 2. Gifts from family members.