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AGENDA REPORT <br />CITY OF COLTON <br />For City Council Meeting of <br />August 5, 1,997 <br />July 30, 1997 <br />TO: MAYOR GAYTAN, CITY COUNCIL AND CITY MANAGER <br />FROM: Julie Hayward Biggs, City Atto ey <br />SUBJECT: Voluntary Campaign Expenditure Limits <br />As reported to the City Council in April of this year, the adoption of Proposition <br />208 by the electorate in 1996 allows the City to impose voluntary expenditure limitations on <br />candidates for City office. Attached is a copy of the memorandum provided to the City Council <br />in April for your reference. <br />You will note that the City Council may adopt spending limitations that provide <br />for expenditures up to $1 per resident in the affected jurisdiction. This means that the City <br />Council has the authority to enact an ordinance establishing such limits within the City. For <br />Colton this means that voluntary expenditure limits may be set at $43,000 or less for the Mayor, <br />City Clerk and Treasurer's positions, and at $7,000 or less for each coucilmanic district. <br />If such voluntary expenditure limitations are imposed by the City Council, the <br />allowable individual campaign contribution limitation would increase from the present $100 per <br />person to $250 per person. Further, once any campaign committee has expended 25 % or more <br />of the expenditure limit, the ceiling for any candidate accepting the expenditure limit <br />automatically doubles. If more than 50% of the ceiling amount is spent by any campaign <br />committee, the expenditure limit triples for candidates accepting the voluntary expenditure <br />limitation. <br />Mayor Gaytan has requested that an ordinance be drafted establishing a voluntary <br />expenditure limit of $2,500 for the offices of Mayor, City Clerk and Treasurer, and at $1,500 <br />for councilmanic districts. If the Council wishes such an ordinance to be drafted, with those <br />voluntary expenditure limitations, or with other limitations established by the City Council, it <br />should direct staff to prepare an ordinance to that effect. <br />Concurrence: <br />Len Wood, Interim City Manager <br />Item No. 22 <br />