The city recognizes that municipal advocates do not have public authority, but they may have significant influence on the city, and the public has a right to know who is being paid to influence the decisions being made by the city, and any financial relationships between those who are being influenced and those who are trying to influence them.

The purpose and intent of this chapter is to provide a procedure whereby persons acting as municipal advocates are required to register and provide sufficient information so that complete disclosure of principals and other parties in interest represented by such municipal advocates may become a public record for the information of the city council and the general public. It is not the intent of this chapter to discourage nor prohibit the exercise of constitutional rights. (Ord. 1271 § 1, 1994)