2.08.020 Definitions.

(a) City Administrative Agency. The City Council, the Rent Control Board, and every City or Rent Control Board office, department, division, board, and commission.
(b) City Employee. City Attorney; Assistant City Attorney; Deputy City Attorney; City Clerk; Assistant City Clerk; City Engineer; City Librarian; City Manager; Assistant City Manager; City Treasurer; Budget Coordinator; each Senior Management Analyst in the City Manager's Office; Director of Civic Auditorium; Director of Cultural and Recreation Services; Cultural Arts Administrator; Director of Finance; Director of General Services; Director of Land Use and Transportation Management; Director of Personnel; Director of Resource Management; Director of Transportation; Fire Chief; Chief of Police; Information Systems Director; Purchasing Agent; and the Administrator, Information Systems Manager, Hearings Department Manager, General Counsel and Staff Attorneys of the Rent Control Board.
Any change in titles of the designated employee positions subject to this Chapter shall automatically be incorporated herein.
(c) City Official. Each member of the City Council, Planning Commission, Architectural Review Board, and the Rent Control Board.
(d) Judicial, Quasi-Judicial, or Other Proceeding.
(1) For former employees and officials of the City of Santa Monica, except the Rent Control Board, any proceeding, application, request for ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, investigation, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter involving a specific party or parties in which the City of Santa Monica is a party or has a direct and substantial interest.
(2) For former employees and officials of the Rent Control Board only, any proceeding, application, request for ruling, or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, investigation, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter involving a specific party or parties in which the Rent Control Board is a party or has a direct and substantial interest.
(e) Participated. To have taken part personally and substantially through decision, approval, disapproval, formal written recommendation, rendering advice on a substantial basis, investigation, or otherwise during the City official's or employee's term of office or employment. A City official's refusal from voting on a matter on the basis of a conflict of interest shall not constitute participation hereunder. (Prior code § 2151; amended by Ord. No. 1517CCS, adopted 3/13/90; Ord. No. 1670CCS § 1, adopted 2/23/93)