TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Dr. Douglas J. Hewett, DBA, ICMA-CM, City Manager
FROM: Rose Rasmussen, CIA, CFE, Internal Audit Director
DATE: February 6, 2026
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City of Fayetteville Conflict of Interest Questionnaire
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
All Districts
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 6: The City of Fayetteville will continue to have a collaborative citizen and business engagement base.
Executive Summary:
Mayor Colvin input a City Council Agenda Item Request to the November 10, 2025 work session to request City Council approve the disclosure of their annual conflict of interest forms for the years 2024 and 2025. However, the action voted on by the consensus of Mayor and Council was to have staff come back with best practices for a consistent process with a unified form for the annual conflict of interest questionnaire to make them available and easily accessible like the State Ethics Commission forms.
Internal Audit staff conducted peer municipality research and contacted the UNC School of Government. Based on this research, Internal Audit determined disclosures ask similar questions to the current City of Fayetteville's questionnaire and are most commonly:
* Completed in writing with signature;
* Public record and available for inspection and copying by any person during normal business hours, and
* Submitted to the Clerk.
Internal Audit also reviewed the State Ethics Commission forms and formats in which the forms could be completed. Internal Audit staff determined the main reason the State Ethics Commission 2025 Statement of Economic Interest form cannot be substituted for the City's conflict of interest questionnaire is because the State form focuses on conflicts related to State service, not service as a City of Fayetteville Mayor or Council Member.
Consistent with the City of Fayetteville conflict of interest questionnaire, the State Ethics Commission allowed an elect...
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