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Gifts <br />City employees may not solicit or accept gifts from any person or company that has a <br />direct financial interest in a decision that the City is authorized to make. No gift may be <br />accepted from consultants, vendors, permit applicants, job applicants, local businesses, or others <br />that have a financial interest in the decision the City may make. <br />The only exceptions to the ban on gifts are: <br />• services of insignificant monetary value; <br />• a plaque or similar memento recognizing individual services in a field of specialty <br />or a charitable cause; <br />• a trinket or memento costing $5 or less; <br />• informational material of insignificant value; <br />• food or beverage given at a reception, meal, or meeting away from the <br />employee's place of work by an organization before whom the employee appears <br />to make a speech or answer questions as part of a program; <br />• gifts given because of the employee's membership in group, a majority of whose <br />members are not local officials, and an equivalent gift is given to the other <br />members of the group; or <br />• gifts given by a person who is a member of the employee's family unless the gift <br />is given on behalf of someone who is not a member of the family. <br />• gifts given by a national or multistate organization of governmental organizations <br />or public officials, if a majority of the dues to the organization are paid from <br />public funds, to attendees at a conference sponsored by that organization, if the <br />gift is food or a beverage given at a reception or meal and an equivalent gift is <br />given or offered to all other attendees. <br />24 <br />142286x12 <br />