Vancouver City Council |
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Date: May 23, 2003
Author/Local: M. Coulson/6125RTS No. 03412
CC File No. 1101
Meeting Date: June 10, 2003
TO:
Vancouver City Council
FROM:
City Clerk
SUBJECT:
Campaign Financing Disclosures for the General Local Election,
November 16, 2002RECOMMENDATION
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 Section 64.2(1) of the Vancouver Charter, which requires the name of any candidate or elector organization that has not filed a campaign financing disclosure within the 120-day filing period, or the 30 day late filing period, to be presented at an open meeting of Council.
This report also discloses the remittance of funds from a candidate and an elector organization to the City of Vancouver in accordance with section 59(2) of the Vancouver Charter, which states that anonymous campaign contributions in excess of $50 must be remitted to the City for the use of the city in the discretion of Council.
DISCUSSION
Section 62 of the Vancouver Charter requires the financial agent for each candidate and elector organization to file a campaign financing disclosure statement within 120 days of the general local election. If no financial agent was appointed, the candidate is deemed to be his or her own financial agent.
Campaign financing disclosure statements may be filed up to 30 days after the deadline if a late filing penalty of $500 is paid to the City under section 62.2 of the Vancouver Charter. Candidates and elector organizations may apply to the Supreme Court under section 63 of the Vancouver Charter, requesting relief from the responsibility to file.Candidates and elector organizations that have not filed before the end of the late filing period and have not provided a Supreme Court Order granting relief from filing are disqualified from nominations/candidate endorsement or elections to Council, another Council, Regional District Board or Board of School Trustees, or the Island Trust, until after the next general local election in 2005.
The following candidates for the 2002 general local election did not file campaign financing disclosure statements before the end of the late filing period (April 16, 2003), and did not provide the City Clerk with a Supreme Court Order relieving them from the responsibility to file:
Candidates for Councillor
Carlo Fortugno
Barney Hickey, vca TEAMCandidate for Park Commissioner
Dave Pasin, vca TEAM
Accordingly, these candidates waive the right to a refund of their $100 nomination deposit and are not entitled to be nominated or elected for any local office in the 2005 local election.
During the filing of campaign financing disclosures, a candidate and an elector organization submitted a total of $375 to the City of Vancouver in accordance with section 59(2) of the Vancouver Charter, which states that anonymous campaign contributions in excess of $50 must be remitted to the City for the use of the city in the discretion of the Council.
The $300 in non-refunded nomination deposits and the $375 in anonymous contributions have been deposited in to the corporate account for sundry fees, 91220/422100.
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