Huntington Beach Planning Commissioner Barbara Delgleize will be fined $2,000 for violating state conflict of interest laws involving a development by Sares-Regis Group, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission.

Delgleize faces punishment for voting for a 477-unit apartment/retail project in February 2011 without disclosing that Sares-Regis donated $520 to her failed city council campaign less than a year earlier. The project near Edinger Avenue and Gothard Street was unanimously approved. FPPC documents said Delgleize should have recused herself from the vote.

Shortly after the vote, Delgleize wrote a letter to the FPPC, stating she had erroneously and without malicious intent broken the law. She explained that her campaign did not accept donations from firms with business before the planning commission. Delgleize wrote that she thought the check from Sares-Regis Group of Irvine had been returned.

“An honest mistake, but one I want to rectify,” Delgleize wrote.

Sares-Regis also will be fined $3,500 for not disclosing the contribution during the planning commission meeting. The FPPC described Sares-Regis as a sophisticated firm that should have procedures in place to prevent such violations. The agency, however, did not find that Sares-Regis intentionally broke the law.

“I think the non-disclosure was truly an oversight,” said Zoe Solsby, spokesperson for the company.

The developer had donated $44,840 to various candidates and committees throughout California during the November 2010 election.

The fines still must be ratified by the FPPC board on Aug. 16.