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4.3 POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND PROVISION OF ELECTION MATERIALS (Revised 05126111) For additional materials information, contact the City Recorder in the City Manager's Office Employees may assist in the preparation of voter materials on election measures when directed to do so by their Executive Manager or the City Manager. Prior to any involvement by a City employee in such activities, the employee shall be given a copy of this information. Information materials about election measures prepared by the City for release to the general public shall be educational and not promotional. The material shall be balanced and review the relevant principal effects of adoption of the measure, with careful consideration of such factors as style, tenor and timing. A. The provision of information should not be timed to create controversy immediately prior to an election. B. Use of bureaucratic verbiage or extreme statements in municipal publications on ballot measures should be avoided. C. If a forum is made available by the City to those on the one side of an issue, it must be provided on the same terms to their opponents. D. If editorials are printed in neighborhood newsletters on a particular issue, there must be sufficient time for opponents of that perspective to publish a rebuttal or their views must be solicited for publication at the same time. E. If the City Council votes to endorse or oppose a particular ballot measure after presentation to it of both sides of the issue, no special advertisement of that vote beyond public action in the minutes and the like shall occur. F. City employees are free to express personal political views on their own time. They may not, however, while on the job during working hours, promote or oppose the nomination or election of a candidate, the adoption of a measure, or the recall of a public office holder. City employees may wear campaign buttons during working hours. They may not solicit money, influence, service or anything of value in this regard during working hours. No person may command or require such aid or promotion by public employees ORS 260.432 (1)(2). It is also inappropriate to use a City office or City equipment for political work even if an employee is on his/her own time, i.e., at lunch.