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PART FIVE 5
Prohibited Activities
1. While CSRs are permitted to participate in political activities while off duty, out of uniform, and not on the
premises of their employment with the locality, CSRs are prohibited from:
a. using their official authority to coerce a subordinate employee to pay, lend or contribute anything of
value to a political campaign or to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment
because of that person’ s political affiliations or activities;
b. d iscriminating in the provision of public services or responding to requests for such services on the
basis of politic affiliations or the political activities of the person or organization requesting the service;
c. suggesting or implying that the locality has officially endorsed a political party, candidate or campaign.
d. attending political campaign functions with or on behalf of any City Council member during their
compensable employment hours. CSRs will not be paid for time spent participating in or attending
political activities.
2. No member of City Council may delegate his/her authority to vote on any matter to a CSR. Further, No
CSR shall serve as a member of any City advisory board, commission or committee that is charged with
making recommendations upon which his or her member of City Council will or may be voting.
3. The CSRs will have a similar relationship to City staff as members of City Council have to such staff, as is
defined in Section 5.03 of the City Charter. Specifically, members of City Council are prohibited from
directing or requesting the appointment of any person to, or his removal from, any office or employment
by the City Manager or by any of the Manager’s subordinates and prohibits members of Council from
in any way taking part in the appointment of or removal of officers and employees of the City except as
specifically provided in the Charter. This section further prohibits any member of Council from giving
orders or direction either publicly or privately to any subordinate of the City Manager. Accordingly, CSRs
are not permitted to do, on behalf of their assigned Council member, that which the Council member is
otherwise, prohibited from doing. As such:
a. The primary points of contact in the City Manager’s office for the CSRs will be the City Manager on
matters of major importance and the City’s Legislative Liaison or Assistant City Managers within their
assignments. However, all members of the City Managers Office function as a unit and are available to
assist the CSRs.
b. T he City Manager’s office shall provide or arrange for such clerical services for the members of City
Council and CSRs as cannot be provided by either the City Clerk or the CSRs themselves.
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