PART C DESCRIPTION OF COMPLAINT

Provide a statement of the facts upon which your complaint is based. Describe the events in
the order in which they occurred. Keep dates of events in sequence. Include full names,
addresses, and phone numbers of all individuals involved, including any witnesses present
when the alleged violations took place. Be factual; the information you provide in this statement
must be based on facts and not on personal conjecture. Try to answer the questions who,
what, where, and when. Attach extra sheets if more space is needed.
District 10 Park and Recreation Board Representative Robb Stewart is a partner at the law firm
Locke Lord LLC.
R. Nathan Crow, an attorney with Locke Lord LLC confirmed yesterday that he is providing Walt
Humanns Fair Park Texas Foundation (FPTF) with pro bono legal assistance by consulting on
the Agreement between the Foundation and the City.
The FPTF Agreement is to be voted upon at the Dallas Parks and Recreation Board at the
August 4, 2016 Park and Recreation Board meeting.
As Mr. Stewarts firm Locke Lord LLC is representing Walt Humann and the Fair Park Texas
Foundation, allowing Mr. Stewart to vote for the Fair Park Texas Foundation proposal would be
grossly inappropriate and demonstrably unethical.

PART D CODE VIOLATIONS

List the specific sections and paragraphs of the Code of Ethics provisions you believe have
been violated. A copy of the Code of Ethics can be found on the city secretarys website.

SEC. 12A-4. UNFAIR ADVANCEMENT OF PRIVATE INTERESTS The private interests

of the Fair Park Texas Foundation and Walt Humann are being advanced by D-10 Park Board
Rep Mr. Robb Stewarts law firm Locke Lord LLC. While the Foundation is to be a non-profit
corporation, the interests are still private and the FPTF contract with the City of Dallas is worth
over $500,000,000. and should only be voted upon by Park and Recreation Board
Representatives whose firms do not or have not represented Walt Humann, his business and/or
philanthropic interests, and most specifically not the Fair Park Texas Foundation. While Locke
Lords R. Nathan Crow is representing Mr. Humann, Mr. Stewart is a Partner in the Locke
Lord LLC firm and Partnership in a law firm is generally held to involve management and/or
ownership. While not definitive, Wikipedia defines a partner as follows:
A partner in a law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm, or financial firm is a
highly ranked position, traditionally indicating co-ownership of a partnership in which
the partners were entitled to a share of the profits as "equity partners." [Wiki Emphasis]
Anyone who works for Locke Lord LLC should be recused from voting on Walt Humanns Fair
Park Texas Foundation Contract in order to prevent the Unfair Advancement of Private Interests.
Further sanctions on input into the contract negotiations may well be warranted in this case.
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SEC. 12A-6. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - The private interests of the Fair Park Texas
Foundation are being represented by Locke Lord LLC. Mr. Stewart is a partner at Locke Lord
LLC. As partnership in a law firm is the equivalent of being in management and/or having
ownership, anyone in a partner position at Locke Lord LLC and serving on the Park Board
would be in a position to glean confidential information from the both the City of Dallas and the
Fair Park Texas Foundation. Having one law firm representing both the city and the private
interest in an agreement of this scope is shocking and likely warrants a more thorough
investigation.
SEC. 12A-7. REPRESENTATION OF PRIVATE INTERESTS - The private interests of the
Fair Park Texas Foundation are being represented by Mr. Stewarts law firm Locke Lord LLC.
The FPTF contract is worth over $500,000,000. and should only be voted upon by those whose
firms that do not represent the private interests of Walt Humann or the FPTF. While Locke Lord
LLCs R. Nathan Crow is representing Mr. Humann, Mr. Stewart is a partner in the firm.
Partnership in a law firm is the equivalent of being in management an/or having ownership. R.
Nathan Crow of Locke Lord LLC attended the 7/21/2016 Park and Recreation Board Special
Meeting as advisor to the Fair Park Texas Foundation and Walt Humann. While Mr. Crow made
clear his work his legal work on behalf of the FPTX is pro bono, the Agreement involves
hundreds of millions of dollars to be received by the private interests of the Fair Park Texas
Foundation. Locke Lord LLCs Partner Robb Stewart is serving on the Dallas Parks and
Recreation Board and in that position he could benefit/represent/advance Locke Lord LLCs
client if he is not recused from voting on this matter.
SEC. 12A-8. CONFLICTING OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT, SEC. 12A-12. PROHIBITED
INTERESTS IN CONTRACTS Locke Lord LLC attorneys represent both Walt Humanns
Fair Park Texas Foundation and, as a Park and Recreation Board Representative, the City of
Dallas negotiating an Agreement that has a 25-year term over which some $500,000,000. of tax
payer dollars will be given over to a private interest for management fees. Most certainly the
contract could have been modified to safeguard the citys irreplaceable Art Deco assets in Fair
Park. Many provisions in the contract said that the FPTF may perform a requirement, rather
than will perform a requirement. Despite Mr. Stewarts extensive legal training and success in
his field, he offered not one suggestion to modify the contract or tighten up the language on
behalf of the City of Dallas unless first requested by another Park Board and Recreation Board
Representative. Unfortunately, to have modified the contract on behalf of the citys park interests
he was to protect, Mr. Stewart would have been in the unenviable position of conflicting with his
Outside Employment, as his firm is actively representing the Fair Park Texas Foundation. How
the firm of Locke Lord LLC allowed this conflict is baffling, but the city should find that there is
a conflict or sufficient appearance of a conflict and that Robb Stewart D-10 Park and Recreation
Board Re should be recused from voting on the Fair Park Texas Foundation Contract.

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PART E SOURCES OF EVIDENCE

Identify sources of evidence, if any, that you believe should be considered by the Ethics
Advisory Commission. Submit all information that you have; attach photocopies of any pertinent
papers or documentation to support your allegation. Please note that if you submit evidence in
a format that the city secretarys office cannot duplicate or display, the city secretary will request
that you provide the evidence in a format that the office can duplicate or display. If you fail to
provide the evidence to the city secretarys office in a format that the office can duplicate or
display within seven days after the office has made a request, then the evidence may not be
presented to or considered by the ethics advisory commission or a panel of the commission.

Locke Lord LLCs website confirms the employment of both Dallas D-10 Park and Recreation
Board Representative Robb Stewart and the Fair Park Texas Foundations legal counsel R.
Nathan Crow.
If the above photos of Walt Humann conferring with Locke Lord LLCs R. Nathan Crow are too
blurred, the citys recordings of the 7/21/2016 Special Meeting for the Park Board will show that
Mr. Walt Humann attended the meeting with R. Nathan Crow.
After the meeting was adjourned, I introduced myself and met Nathan Crow an attorney with
Locke Lord who told me that he was working pro bono for the Foundation. I asked him if that
was the same law firm where Robb Stewart works and Mr. Crow confirmed that D- 10 Park and
Recreation Board Representative Mr. Robb Stewart also works at Locke Lord LLC. I swear and
affirm this is true.

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I CERTIFY THAT I HAVE READ THIS COMPLAINT, I FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS,
AND I DECLARE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
TEXAS THAT THE COMPLAINT STATES A VIOLATION OF CHAPTER 12A OF THE DALLAS
CITY CODE, THAT THIS COMPLAINT IS NOT BEING PRESENTED FOR ANY IMPROPER
PURPOSE, AND THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS AND EVIDENCE ARE TRUE AND
CORRECT OR, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, ARE SUPPORTED BY CREDIBLE
EVIDENCE FORMED AFTER AN INQUIRY REASONABLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
I UNDERSTAND THAT A COPY OF THIS COMPLAINT WILL BE SENT TO THE CHAIR OF
THE ETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION AND TO THE INDIVIDUAL CHARGED IN THIS
COMPLAINT. ALL PAPERS AND COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO A COMPLAINT MUST
BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL LAW UNLESS REQUIRED TO BE MADE PUBLIC BY THE
PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT (CHAPTER 552, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE) OR OTHER
APPLICABLE LAW.
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Signature

Before me the undersigned authority, on the _____ day of ___________, 20__, personally
appeared, ______________________________, known to me to be the person whose name is
subscribed hereto, and being duly sworn stated that such facts are true and correct, or, to the
best of his/her knowledge, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, the
factual contentions are supported by credible evidence submitted in and with the complaint.
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Notary Public
<NOTARY SEAL>

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County, Texas

My Commission expires:
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Special Note: Section 3.2 of the Ethics Advisory Commission Rules of Procedure states that
supplements to a complaint may only be filed within seven days after the city secretarys
acceptance of the original completed complaint.
Should you have any questions concerning this form, please contact the City Secretarys Office,
at (214) 670-3738 during regular business hours (8:15am 5:15pm).
Upon completing ALL sections of this form, please hand deliver or send by certified mail with
any attachments to:
Office of the City Secretary
CITY HALL
1500 Marilla Avenue Suite 5DS
Dallas, TX 75201
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ETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION

COMPLAINT FORM INSTRUCTIONS
1. Any resident of the city or any person doing business or attempting to do
business with the city (other than a member of the Ethics Advisory
Commission) or any city official or employee who believes there has been a
violation of the Ethics Code may file a sworn complaint using the attached
complaint form. The attached complaint form must be completed, signed and
sworn to under penalty of perjury before a Notary Public.
2. The sworn complaint must be filed with the Office of the City Secretary, Room
5DS, City Hall, 1500 Marilla Avenue, Dallas, Texas, 75201.
3. FILING A COMPLAINT THAT FALSELY ACCUSES SOMEONE OF A
VIOLATION OF THE ETHICS CODE MAY RESULT IN SANCTIONS ISSUED
BY THE ETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION, IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
OF ANYONE WHO KNOWINGLY MAKES A FALSE ACCUSATION, OR
BOTH.
4. Promptly after receipt of the sworn complaint, the city secretary will
acknowledge, in writing, receipt of the complaint to the complainant and will
review the complaint for completeness. Upon acceptance of a complete
complaint, the city secretary will forward a copy of the complaint to the chair of
the Ethics Advisory Commission and to the person charged in the complaint.
The person charged in the complaint shall have the opportunity to submit a
sworn statement, together with such other information as he or she feels is
relevant. If the complaint is not complete, the city secretary will notify the
complainant in writing that the complaint is incomplete. The complainant shall
have 20 days after the date of the notice to provide the required information, or
the complaint will not be processed.
5. Within 30 days after receipt of the complaint by the chair, a preliminary panel of
the Ethics Advisory Commission shall make a preliminary finding as to whether
or not the complaint states a claim under the Ethics Code and is supported by
just cause. (Just cause means such cause as is found to exist upon a
reasonable inquiry that would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent
person to believe that an act or acts constituting an ethical violation has been
committed).
6. If the preliminary finding is that the complaint DOES NOT state a claim under
the Ethics Code or does not have just cause, based upon the statements and
evidence submitted, the complaint will be dismissed by the preliminary panel of
the Ethics Advisory Commission.
7. If a complaint is summarily dismissed pursuant to a preliminary finding, written
notice identifying the reason(s) for the dismissal will be sent to the complainant
and the individual about whom the complaint was made.
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COMPLAINT FORM INSTRUCTIONS, continued

8. If the complaint is not summarily dismissed by a preliminary panel of the Ethics
Advisory Commission, the Ethics Advisory Commission will notify the
complainant and the individual about whom the complaint was made of the
date of an evidentiary hearing regarding the complaint. Written notice by
certified mail or personal service (or by first class mail, facsimile, or email if
such consent is given in writing) will be sent to the complainant and the
individual about whom the complaint was made not less than 10 days before
the date of the hearing. The notice must state the specific provision(s) of the
Ethics Code alleged in the complaint to have been violated. The person
charged in the complaint must have notice of the provision of the Ethics Code
at issue and be given an opportunity to respond.
9. A complaint alleging violation of Chapter 12A, Dallas City Code, must be filed
with the city secretary within one year after the date of the alleged violation.
Complaints alleging activity more than one year before the date of the alleged
violation will not be accepted by the city secretary.
10. If the complaint is dismissed because the evidence failed to establish a
violation of the Ethics Code, the Ethics Advisory Commission shall not entertain
any other similar complaint based on substantially the same evidence.
11. All papers and communications relating to a complaint must be treated as
confidential unless required to be made public by the Public Information Act or
other applicable law.

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