Update: Gov. John Kitzhaber calls a press conference for Friday to answer questions about Cylvia Hayes.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, has confirmed she collected $118,000 in previously undisclosed payments from an out-of-state clean energy group while she was advising the governor on clean energy policy.

Clean Economy Development Center of Washington, D.C., paid her $30,000 in 2011 and $88,000 in 2012.

The disclosures mean Hayes has collected at least $213,000 in consulting fees since Kitzhaber took office in 2011. She serves as first lady of Oregon.

The admitted payouts conflict with statements Kitzhaber has made regarding Hayes' consulting work, how his office handled her contracts and statements he has made in his annual ethics filings.

The income also doesn't match what's reported for those years on federal tax forms Hayes provided to The Oregonian/OregonLive. And one contractor reported Wednesday that it had paid Hayes $10,000 more for yet another contract than Hayes reported to the governor's office.

Hayes and the governor didn't respond Wednesday to written questions or requests for comment about the payments, ethics issues and the tax filing. Attorneys representing the two before the Oregon Government Ethics Commission also didn't respond to written questions.

Hayes hasn't responded to questions or interview requests from The Oregonian/OregonLive since October. The $118,000 in payments and its implications were first reported Tuesday by EO Media Group/Pamplin Media Group.

Undisclosed contracts

Those first two years of Gov. John Kitzhaber's third term followed a controversy surrounding Hayes' Bend-based company, 3E Strategies, and a contract with the Oregon Department of Energy. Hayes and her company were cleared of any wrongdoing after a state Department of Justice investigation. However, she and Kitzhaber later gave assurances to media and constituents that they'd instituted a series of changes to avoid any potential ethical issues in the future.

For his part, Kitzhaber said that he created a conflict of interest process within his office requiring Hayes to disclose -- and share copies of – her contracts with the governor's staff attorney.

Yet it appears that Hayes did not complete such disclosure forms for her contract with the Clean Economy Development Center of Washington, D.C., or three others: Waste to Energy of Texas; HDR One Co., of Portland; and Rural Development Initiatives of Eugene.

In mid-October, The Oregonian/OregonLive requested government documents from Kitzhaber's office regarding Hayes' three most recent contracts as well as "any other conflict-of-interest matters brought to the attention of Liani Reeves," the governor's staff attorney.

In response, the governor's office released Hayes' most recent disclosure forms and contracts – with Resource Media, Energy Foundation and Demos – as well as limited email traffic between Hayes and governor's office staff regarding those three contracts. The governor's office did not release any other conflict of interest forms.

When Hayes' contracts came under fire during Kitzhaber's re-election campaign last fall, he submitted a series of questions and documents to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission seeking advice on whether his office had correctly handled Hayes' work.

The governor submitted Hayes' most recent contracts to the ethics commission but did not submit any contracts or disclosure forms for her work in 2011 and 2012, including the Clean Economy Development Center fellowship.

"In an abundance of caution, over the past three and a half years the Governor's office has treated Cylvia Hayes in her First Lady role as a "public official" in order to ensure compliance with state ethics statutes," Reeves wrote in her letter to the commission. "Accordingly we have reviewed her proposed professional business activities and have put measures in place to avoid any conflicts of interest."

The state's ethics commission refused to address Kitzhaber's questions, saying it could not address issues that have already occurred. As a public official, Hayes is bound by state ethics laws that forbid public officials from using their role to gain personally.

The ethics commission is currently reviewing two ethics complaints filed against Kitzhaber and Hayes and will decide in March whether to move forward with a formal investigation.

Conflicting reports

On the tax return that Hayes provided to The Oregonian/OregonLive, Hayes reported to the Internal Revenue Service that her salary and business income for 2011 totaled $52,203.

According to ethics disclosure forms Kitzhaber filed with the state, 2011 was the year Hayes held four different contracts, including her fellowship with the Clean Economy Development Center that Hayes now says was worth $30,000.

Hayes also said the development center paid her $88,000 in 2012. Yet in her IRS filing for that year, her business income was noted as $27,361. She listed no wages or salary. The consulting income could have been reported on her business tax returns.

In his own ethics filing covering 2012, Kitzhaber noted that his household received income from Hayes' 3E Strategies. Section No. 7 of that form directed the governor to list any household income of $1,000 or more from groups with business, legislative or administrative interests in Oregon.

Hayes now says she was paid $88,000 by the Clean Economy Development Center that year, yet Kitzhaber wrote "None."

When asked on Wednesday to reconcile Hayes' tax return in 2012 with the fellowship contract amount reported by EO Media, neither Hayes nor the governor's office returned repeated emails and calls.

The fellowship

While Hayes was willing to disclose to EO Media/Pamplin how much money she'd collected from her fellowship, the first lady wouldn't share what work she'd done with the Clean Economy Development Center. Still, Hayes has highlighted the fellowship on her business website, in numerous biographies that she submitted when she spoke at conferences and on her First Lady of Oregon page linked from the governor's web site.

The center's website says it works with business, government and nonprofit "partners" on a various clean energy issues and projects, and in turn works to link up those "partners" with federal, state and private-sector grants. According to the center's website, the group did work in Oregon.

Jeffrey King, listed as executive director of the center, did not return calls or emails seeking comment regarding Hayes' work. Once an executive for the now-defunct Hollywood Entertainment, King noted on the professional networking site LinkedIn that he's been with the Clean Economy Development Center since 2010. He also referred to the center on LinkedIn as a political organization.

Energy Foundation, a large San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy, confirmed it footed some of the bills for Hayes' fellowship.

Spokeswoman Jenny Coyle told The Oregonian/Oregonlive by email Wednesday that the foundation provided Clean Economy Development Center $50,000 in 2011 and another $25,000 in 2012 to support Hayes' work.

Hayes was paid to promote clean energy businesses and jobs in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, Coyle said. She delivered by giving speeches to groups including the Professional Engineers of Oregon and the Beaverton Revitalization Roundtable, as well as attending events such as University of Oregon's Earth Day.

At the roundtable, for instance, Hayes "discussed the innovative measures that the Beaverton community was pursuing—solar panels on the municipal buildings, electric vehicle charging stations at the farmer's market, city loans for energy efficiency improvements," Coyle said.

The foundation hired Hayes directly in 2013, paying her $50,000 for work between May and December 2013, according to terms described by the foundation.

The sum and terms vary from the contract Hayes gave the governor's office. That document said the fee was $40,000 and that the work extended into 2014.

Coyle said that a later version of the contract increased the amount to $50,000 and that Hayes reached that billable amount in work and expenses earlier than expected.

-- Laura Gunderson and Nick Budnick