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All ful--time City employees must participate in Fraud Awareness Training sponsored by the Unit and provided by the Personnel Department with the assistance of the Information Technology Agency, Ethics Commission, and City Attorney, and to coincide, to the extent possible, with the City’s mandatory ethics training. Failure to complete the training as required shall subject those employees to possible enforcement as further provided in the Governmental Ethics Ordinance.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 182,478, Eff. 4-17-13.
At the Controller’s discretion, the Unit may operate a telephonic hotline to receive complaints and allegations of fraud, waste and abuse. Callers to the hotline shall be offered the option of reporting anonymously. The Unit may also provide email, web-based, or other electronic methods of reporting complaints and allegations, provided these include an option for remaining anonymous.
The fraud, waste and abuse hotline may not be promoted or operated in a manner that would interfere with or create confusion regarding the role of the City Ethics Commission’s whistleblower hotline, which was established by Charter Section 702(g) to address complaints and allegations related to campaign finance, lobbying, governmental ethics and conflicts of interest. Complaints and allegations examined by the Unit that upon receipt or after investigation has begun appear to fall within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission shall be referred to the Ethics Commission without undue delay after discovery of that fact.
SECTION HISTORY
Article and Sec. Added by Ord. No. 179,871, Eff. 6-29-08.
Amended by: Renumbered, Ord. No. 182,478, Eff. 4-17-13.
Investigations conducted by the Unit shall be confidential. Information regarding Unit investigations may not be disclosed except as necessary to conduct investigations or as required by law. Notwithstanding the confidential nature of Unit investigations, the Unit shall release relevant information as necessary to carry out referrals to other agencies for appropriate action, and may release aggregated or summary information for reporting purposes.
SECTION HISTORY
Article and Sec. Added by Ord. No. 179,871, Eff. 6-29-08.
Amended by: Renumbered, Ord. No. 182,478, Eff. 4-17-13.
(a) In addition to and notwithstanding any charges that may otherwise be provided by law, the Controller shall impose and collect the following fees:
1. For performing warrant research, $12.50 per warrant,
2. For verifying the transaction that generated a warrant, $14.50 per warrant;
3. For preparing and processing a duplicate warrant, $10.00 per warrant; and
4. For preparing and processing a remake of a warrant, $6.00 per warrant.
(b) All of the above fees are based on current salary rates and associated indirect costs, and are subject to annual adjustment. As of July 1 of each year, the Controller is authorized to increase or decrease the fees set forth in Subsection (a) hereof in an amount equal to the average percentage of salary increases or decreases received by the employees in the Controller’s Check Reconciliation Section, and associated indirect costs. All fees shall be collected upon presentation of the warrants or information.
(c) No payee or payee’s successor in interest shall be required to pay a fee for any service described in Subsection (a) hereof, when the request for warrants or information is received from the payee or payee’s successor in interest listed on said warrants being researched.
(d) No agency or officer of the Federal Government or State of California shall be required to pay a fee for any service described in Subsection (a) hereof when it is rendered for official purposes.
SECTION HISTORY
Article and Sec. Added by Ord. No. 169,039, Eff. 10-13-93.