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14S THE CITY Of pL£~S~4NTONe Supplemental CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT December 1 S, 2007 City Manager's Office TITLE: SUPPLEMENT TO ITEM 14: ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE. RECOMMEND THAT COMMITTEES ALSO BE REQUIRED TO ELECTRONICALLY FILE CAMPAIGN STATEMENT This information supplements and modifies staff's recommendation regarding mandatory electronic filing of campaign statements. The original staff report and proposed ordinance recommended that candidates and candidates' committees be required to electronically file campaign statements with the City Clerk's Office. Staff now proposes that the electronic filing requirement be expanded to include those committees which already are required to file campaign statements with the City Clerk, such as independent expenditure committees or political action committees (PACs) which are focused on local Pleasanton issues. This would include a "city general purpose committee", which is defined by the Government Code as "a committee to support or oppose candidates or measures voted on in only one city", as well as a "primarily formed committee", which under State law are "committees formed or existing primarily to support or oppose candidates or local measures to be voted upon in one city". The language of the proposed ordinance has been amended (see attached) to provide that committees which file campaign statements with the City Clerk's Office shall also be required to file campaign statements electronically. Committees, such as a "city general purpose committee" or a "single purpose committee", are already included in the definition of "committee" in Section 1.20.020.C. of the Pleasanton Municipal Code, as: "any persons organized to conduct or aid the election campaign, including fundraising events, of any candidate for City office, or for the support or defeat of a measure under consideration in the City." Therefore, by deleting the word "candidate's" prior to the word "committee", the revised proposed ordinance would require electronic filing of campaign statements by candidates and all committees which otherwise file with the City Clerk's Office.