Distributed via email to the City Council on 10/14/2022
JL Group Proposed Scope of Work
1. Identify campaign contributors and amounts for all candidate/office holder accounts for sitting council members, former Mayor Harry Sidhu, and any council members who served concurrently with Mayor Sidhu, and any other local officials of interest.
2. Identify correlations between campaign contributions and questionable official actions or activities of these current and former office holders.
3. Identify consultants who were selected to work for the City and/or and lobbyists who represented entities or individuals with financial interests in the City, and who also made campaign contributions to any Council Member since 2017.
4. Identify payments made from those consultants engaged to work for the City and /or from those lobbyists who represented entities or individuals with financial interests in the City, and determine, if possible, what the money was used for.
5. Investigate any communications and/or meetings in violation of the Brown Act that included financial interests and/or influence on voting in the context of the facts alleged in the recent federal investigation.
6. Identify commercial developments and/or projects under review or approved/entitled by the City where campaign contributions were made to Council Members in connection with the project, and improprieties have been or can be identified.
7. Review the applicability of current local ordinances, policies, and procedures; make recommendations as to any changes or additions that will discourage political co rruption and/or promote transparency.
8. Evaluate and identify to what extent, if any, city staff was involved in or were aware of the illegal and unethical behavior in the context of the recent federal investigation.