<div dir="ltr">Hey Donna,<div><br></div><div>Here is the current language the Dallas Downtown Association uses: </div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e006e051-7fff-db37-afea-e5abbdddac2f"><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For the purpose of this Article, a conflict of interest transaction is a transaction with the DDA in which the Director has a direct or indirect interest; provided that the status of a</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Director as a resident of the City of Dallas, Polk County or State of Oregon shall not, in and of itself, constitute a conflict of interest.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A Director shall declare to the board of directors any conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest on their part which they know or have reason to know, concerning any proposed action of the board of directors. A transaction in which a Director may have a conflict of interest may be approved by the vote of the board of directors or a committee thereof if the material facts of the transaction and the Director’s interest are disclosed or known to the board of directors or committee; or by obtaining the approval of the Attorney General of the State of Oregon or any Circuit Court of the State of Oregon in an action in which the Attorney General is joined as a party. A conflict of interest transaction shall not be avoidable nor the basis for imposing liability on a Director if the transaction is fair to the DDA at the time it is entered into or approved as provided herein. For the purposes of this Section, a Director shall be deemed to have an indirect interest in a transaction if another entity in which the Director has a material interest or in which the Director is a general partner is a party to the transaction; or another entity of which the Director is a director, officer or trustee is a party to the transaction and the transaction is or should be considered by the board of directors of the DDA.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A conflict of interest transaction shall be authorized, approved, or ratified by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors who have no direct or indirect interest in the transaction. No conflict of interest transaction may be authorized, approved, or ratified by a single Director. If a majority of the Directors, who have no direct or indirect interest in a transaction vote to authorize, approve, or ratify such transaction, a quorum shall be deemed present for the purpose of taking action under this Article.</span></p></li></ol></span></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Tyler Ferrari<div>Economic Development Specialist</div><div>503-831-3579</div><div><img width="200" height="47" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zMubk4EJ-I9n6ucAQRulloWYECC0yhJZMcDJVLKImaDsYoRiwY99p7IrXLXThEinZ7VcAeOGk"><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 9:26 AM City Club Forest Grove <<a href="mailto:cityclubofforestgrove@gmail.com">cityclubofforestgrove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a good conflict of interest policy I can use as a guideline? We are a small community and some of us are on 2 non-profits which can conflict with each other. We need some language to help guide us during that process.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#351c75"><b><br></b></font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#351c75"><b>Thank you,</b></font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#351c75"><b>Donna Gustafson, President</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#351c75"><b>The City Club of Forest Grove</b></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" face="georgia, serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><a href="https://www.cityclubfg.com/events" target="_blank">Check out our new Community Calendar</a></b></span></font></div><div><b><font color="#0000ff">Become a <a href="https://www.cityclubfg.com/services-7" target="_blank">MEMBER</a> to support downtown improvements, events, enhancements, preservation and take advantage of membership perks. 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