Development and Strategic Advisory Consulting Services

The Vendor is required to provide development and strategic advisory consulting services for include:
- Governance and organizational framework development
• May meet with county counsel, CEO Representatives, and designated stakeholders to confirm governance objectives, operational priorities, and implementation requirements related to the establishment of the ethics commission and ethics office.
• Conduct research and analysis of comparable ethics commissions, ethics offices, campaign finance oversight entities, governmental accountability offices, and oversight entities across counties, municipalities, states, and other public agencies.
• Develop organizational and operational framework options for the ethics commission and ethics office, including governance structures, reporting relationships, independence considerations, authorities, jurisdictional responsibilities, operational functions, and administrative support structures.
• Produce comparative governance and best-practices analyses identifying operational models, legal considerations, operational safeguards, and implementation risks associated with ethics oversight entities.
- Operational planning and implementation strategy and support
• May develop an implementation roadmap, which will include strategies and timelines, and phased operational plans necessary to establish the ethics commission and ethics office pursuant to measure g and related board direction.
• Create staffing models, organizational charts, position classifications, operational responsibilities, and function-specific resource requirements for executive leadership, investigative, legal, compliance, policy, outreach, and administrative support functions including but not limited to staffing allocations, technology needs, facilities considerations, and administrative support requirements.
• Prepare budgetary and funding recommendations, including operational, administrative, technology, and facility needs.
• Required to identify implementation risks, operational challenges, legal considerations, and transition planning requirements associated with establishment of the ethics commission and ethics office.
• Develop ethics commissioner training materials on brown act requirements, parliamentary procedure, and laws under the commission’s jurisdiction.
• Be required to provide administrative support, including but not limited to, agenda preparation and distribution, meeting scheduling and coordination, records retention and document management, correspondence tracking, report preparation, budget and fiscal administration, procurement and contract administration, facilities and technology coordination, public inquiry response, and other administrative functions necessary.
• Serve as the interim ethics officer and provide executive leadership, strategic direction, operational oversight, policy guidance, stakeholder engagement, and administrative management necessary to support the successful launch and initial operation of the ethics commission and ethics office until permanent leadership is appointed.
- Ethics oversight and compliance framework
• May develop recommendations for campaign finance oversight and related compliance mechanisms.
• Prepare recommendations for lobbyist registration, reporting requirements, and transparency measures.
• Develop conflict of interest oversight and government ethics compliance recommendations, including drafting a post government service (revolving door) restrictions ordinance and a draft ethics code.
• Develop recommendations for investigative authority, referral protocols, administrative enforcement structures, public reporting requirements, and public complaint intake and resolution processes.
- Policies, procedures, and governance documentation
• Prepare operational policies, procedures, governance protocols, governance documents, and implementation frameworks required for establishing and operating the ethics commission and ethics office
• Draft complaint procedures and draft penalty guidelines for commission review and consideration.
• Prepare written reports, governance analyses, technical memoranda, executive briefings, presentations, and implementation recommendations for consideration by the executive office and board of supervisors.
• Develop stakeholder engagement and communication strategies related to the establishment of the ethics commission and ethics office for both internal and external audiences.
• Provide ongoing strategic advisory support and technical assistance throughout the implementation period.