Oregon Government Ethics Commission

That is incorrect.

Remember that a conflict of interest has three parts: you taking an official action, the official action creating or potentially creating a financial impact, and the financial impact being on you, your relatives, your household members, or an associated business.  

If you’re taking a vote on re-evaluating a road development discussion, that counts as taking an official action. Could there be a financial impact from that action? Well, discussing a road development on land next to yours could lead to a financial impact later on. Road development tends to impact property value and, while you may not be making the decision to implement the development, voting about whether to consider it does mean there’s a possibility of a financial impact later. Since the road development would be next to your property and the potential for an increase in property value would impact you, that means the potential financial impact is on yourself.  

With that analysis, we can see that you have a potential conflict of interest when voting on re-evaluating the discussion of road development on land next to your property.


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