Resolution No. 2025-349
Resolution No. 2025-349
August 6, 2025
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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-349
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA,
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN
AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FAIR
POLITIAL PRACTICES COMMISSION FOR CAMPAIGN
LAW ENFORCEMENT
WHEREAS, in an effort to increase transparency and eliminate any appearance of quid pro quo, thereby increasing trust in the City’s government, the City seeks to establish a limit on campaign contributions by persons, or persons acting on their behalf, with active applications with the City; and
WHEREAS, Government Code section 81013 provides that a local agency may impose additional laws regulating political practices on any person as long as it does not prevent that person from complying with the Political Reform Act; and WHEREAS, Government Code section 84308 already imposes limits on the solicitation and receipt of contributions for appointed officials from active or recent participants in the entitlement process and the City’s elected officials are required to comply with such rules when they are appointed to other legislative bodies; and
WHEREAS, it is the City Council’s intent to address the perception that unregulated campaign contributions lead to improper influence over elected officials and to establish realistic, narrowly tailored and enforceable limits on the amounts which may be contributed to City political campaigns by persons with active applications in the City consistent with the rights of political expression protected under the United States Constitution; and WHEREAS, on May 19, 2021, the City Council accepted for first reading Ordinance No.
MC-1558 adding Chapter 2.55 to the City of San Bernardino Municipal Code Relating to Local Campaign Finance Regulations; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this Ordinance is to establish limits on the amounts of money that may be directly contributed to political campaigns by persons with active applications in the City’s elections; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. MC-1558 designates the California Fair Political Practices Commission (“FPPC”) as the enforcement agency for Chapter 2.55 of the Municipal Code; and WHEREAS, under Chapter 2.55 of the Municipal Code the City provide access to the FPPC for all licenses data, permits, contracts or entitlements for use, as defined in Section 2.55.010 and the FPPC will cross-reference the data received from the City against the most recent FPPC Form 460 Filing (Recipient Committee Campaign Statement) of each Elected Official who has received Contributions equal to or exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000) as shown on the most recent FPPC Form 460 Filing; and
Resolution No. 2025-349
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WHEREAS, as set forth in Government Code section 83116, the FPPC shall have prosecutorial discretion to enforce and may discipline an Elected Official for violating Chapter
2.55 of the Municipal Code, including, but not limited to, requiring the Elected Official to pay a monetary fine.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.The above recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 2. The City Manager, or designee, is hereby authorized and directed to execute a Professional Services Agreement with the California Fair Political Practices Commission (“FPPC”), in an amount not to exceed $200,000.
SECTION 3.That the City Council finds this Resolution is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in that the activity is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty, as in this case, that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA.
SECTION 4.Severability. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this Resolution are declared to be severable.
SECTION 5. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective immediately.
APPROVED and ADOPTED by the City Council and signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk this 6th day of August 2025.
Helen Tran, Mayor
City of San Bernardino
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Attest:
Telicia Lopez, CMC, Acting City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Sonia Carvalho, City Attorney
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Resolution No. 2025-349
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO) ss
CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO )
I, Telicia Lopez, CMC, City Clerk, hereby certify that the attached is a true copy of Resolution No. 2025-349, adopted at a regular meeting held on the 6th day of August, 2025 by the following vote:
Council Members: AYES NAYS ABSTAIN ABSENT
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WITNESS my hand and official seal of the City of San Bernardino this __ day of August, 2025.
Telicia Lopez, CMC, Acting City Clerk