Antoinette Renwick

Conflict of Interest

Fine: $6,500

FPPC No. 10/567

Respondent, Antoinette Renwick (“Respondent Renwick”), was the Inspection Services Manager for the City of Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency (CEDA), Building Services Division (BSD), from November 2002 through October 2010. As the BSD Inspection Services Manager, Respondent Renwick was a public official, as defined in Section 82048 of the Political Reform Act, and was a designated employee in the Conflict of Interest Code for the City of Oakland. In this matter, Respondent Renwick violated the conflict of interest provisions of the Act when she approved and signed a series of contracts with a contractor, her former brother-in law,from whom she had received a loan in the amount of $50,000. Additionally, Respondent Renwick violated the financial disclosure requirements of the Act by failing to disclose the loan from the contractor in her 2008 Annual Statement of Economic Interests. Thus, Respondent Renwick made a series of governmental decisions involving her former brother-in-law in which she knew herself to have afinancial interest in violation of Government Code Section 87100 (1 count) and Respondent Renwick failed to disclose her former brother-in-law as a source of a loan in her 2008 Annual Statement of Economic Interests in violation of Government Code Sections 87300 and 87302, subdivision (b) (1 count).