Complaint Review: JAMES BUDDY WHITLOCK

BEFORE THE STATE OF FLORIDA
COMMISSION ON ETHICS  
In re JAMES “BUDDY” WHITLOCK,                         
Complaint No.  99-023        Respondent.                  
Final Order No. COE 00-037   

FINAL ORDER AND PUBLIC REPORT     The State of Florida Commission on Ethics, meeting in public session on Thursday, August 24, 2000, adopted the Joint Stipulation of Fact, Law and Recommended Order entered into between the Advocate for the Commission and the Respondent in this matter.  In accordance with the Stipulation, which is attached hereto and incorporated by reference, the Commission finds that the Respondent, as a member of the Sebring City Council, violated Section 112.313(3), Florida Statutes, by selling the land surveying services of his company, Whitlock Land Surveying, Inc., to his agency, the City of Sebring, and Section 112.313(7)(a), Florida Statutes, by having an employment or contractual relationship with a business entity which was doing business with his agency. For the violations found, the Commission hereby recommends that the Respondent pay a civil penalty of Seven Hundred dollars ($ 700.00). ORDERED by the State of Florida Commission on Ethics this 24th day of August, 2000.   
  

Howard Marks Chair   cc: 
Mr. James “Buddy” Whitlock, Respondent
 Mr. James H. Peterson, III,
Commission Advocate
Mr. Preston H. Colby, Complainant