ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

Date: April 26, 2000
Author/Local: U. Watkiss/7266
RTS No. 1366

CC File No. 1101

Council: May 16, 2000

TO:	Vancouver City Council
FROM:	City Clerk
SUBJECT:	Campaign Disclosure - General Local Elections, November 20, 1999

RECOMMENDATION

THAT this report be received for information.

CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS

The City Manager RECOMMENDS approval of the foregoing.

PURPOSE

This report is submitted in accordance with the requirements of ss. 64.2(2) of the Vancouver Charter. This provision requires that the names of candidates or elector organizations for whom a disclosure statement was not filed within the required 120-day time period or within the 30-day late filing period, and who did not obtain a Supreme Court order relieving them from the requirements, be presented at an open meeting of Council.

DISCUSSION

Section 62 of the Vancouver Charter requires financial agents for each candidate and elector organization to file a disclosure statement within 120 days of the general local election (March 20, 2000). (If no financial agent was appointed, the candidate is his or her own financial agent.)

Unless a candidate or elector organization obtains a order from the Supreme Court relieving them from filing a disclosure statement candidates who were elected cease to hold office and all such candidates and elector organizations are disqualified from nominations or elections to Council, another Council, Regional District Board or Board of School Trustees, or theIsland Trust, until after the next general local election (in 2002).

Candidate and elector organization disqualifications for failure to file disclosure statements do not apply if a disclosure statement is subsequently filed within 30 days after the filing period and a late penalty of $500 is paid to the City, or a Supreme Court order relieving the candidate or elector organization is obtained under sections 62.2 and 63 of the Vancouver Charter.

The following did not file disclosure statements withing the time limits set out in the charter, nor provide the City Clerk with a Supreme Court Order exempting them from filing:

Elector Organizations
1. C.I.V.I.C.
2. The New Congress

Candidate for Mayor
1. Corinna Indigo vanGerwen, The New Congress

Candidates for Councillor
1. Jamie Lee Hamilton, C.I.V.I.C.
2. Laurie McDonald, C.I.V.I.C.

Candidate for Park Commissioner
1. H. Rand Irwin

Accordingly, the defaulting candidates and organizations waive the right to a refund of their nomination deposits and are not entitled to be nominated or elected for any local office in the 2002 local election. They may, however, run in subsequent elections.

All candidates or elector organizations are reminded that they are required to file supplementary reports with the City Clerk within 30 days of becoming aware that information in the disclosure statement has changed or the filed statement did not completely and accurately disclose the information required to be included in the disclosure statement (s. 62.1).

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