The City Council finds and declares that:
(A) Public office and employment with the city are public trusts;
(B) The vitality and stability of the government of the city depends upon the public’s confidence in the integrity of its elected and appointed officers and employees; and
(C) The government of the city has a duty to provide its citizens with standards by which they may determine whether public duties are being faithfully performed and to make its officers and employees aware of the standards which the citizenry rightfully expects them to comply with while conducting their public duties.
(`96 Code, § 39.02) (Ord. 1994-13, passed 10-27-1994)