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LOCAL LAW 03-2026 WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Orchard Park and the Ethics Board of the Town of Orchard Park are committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in municipal governance, and WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Orchard Park and the Ethics Board of the Town of Orchard Park have proposed updates to Article 12 Ethics Code of the Town of Orchard Park to establish the existence of alternate members to the Ethics Board to ensure a quorum exists for regular and special meetings, to clarify certain ambiguities, and to provide specificity to the procedures for investigations and standards of conduct for Town Officers and Employees, and WHEREAS, due and timely notice of the amendments having been given, and a public hearing relating to the matter of Local Law 03-2026 was conducted on July 15, 2025, at a regular meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Orchard Park, at which time all interested parties were given an opportunity to speak, and WHEREAS, this is an unlisted action under SEQR, and the Town Board hereby makes a motion for a negative declaration. NOW, THEREFORE, be it RESOLVED, that the Town Board is hereby authorized to adopt Local Law 03-2026 which provides as follows: Delete current §12-2 “Standards of conduct for Town officers and employees” and Replace §12-2 with the Amended “812-2 Standards of conduct for Town officers and employees: A. General prohibition. A Town officer or employee shall not use his or her official position or office to take or fail to take any action in a manner which he or she knows or has reason to know may result in a personal financial benefit for any of the following persons: (1) The Town officer or employee; (2) His or her outside employer or business; (3) A member of his or her household; (4) A customer or client; or (5) A relative. B. Recusal. A Town officer or employee shall promptly recuse himself or herself from acting on a matter before the Town when acting on the matter, or failing to act on the matter, may financially benefit any of the persons listed in Subsection A of this section. C.Gifts. A Town officer or employee shall not directly or indirectly solicit, accept or receive any gift, whether in the form of money, services, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, material goods, thing or promise or any other form, under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred or could reasonably be expected that the gift was intended to influence such officer or employee in the performance of his or her official duties or was intended as a reward for any official action or inaction. Under no circumstances shall an officer or employee accept any gift in excess of the values set forth pursuant to New York State law.