The purpose of this article is to supplement the provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974, Title 9 of the Government Code (commencing with Section 81000), by:
A. Limiting the aggregate amount of campaign contributions which may be made by a person to a city council candidate in order to preclude a contributor from gaining disproportionate access to or influence over the city council or any of its individual members by making particularly large campaign contributions to one or more city council candidates;
B. Lowering the threshold on those campaign contributions to a city council candidate or to a committee supporting or opposing a city council candidate or a city ballot measure which must be individually disclosed and identified on campaign statements filed pursuant to the Political Reform Act of 1974, in order to more fully inform the voters of the city about the sources of campaign funds;
C. Requiring all campaign contributions to a city council candidate or to a committee supporting or opposing a city council candidate, regardless of amount, to be publicly reported, and prohibiting anonymous contributions to a city council candidate or to a committee supporting or opposing a city council candidate or a city ballot measure; and
D. Requiring an additional campaign statement to be filed five days before each municipal election.
(Ord. 1751 §1 (part), Ord. 2113 §4, Ord. 2251) Ord. 2421 §1)