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NAKAMOTO: Okay, I'm very fortunate to have our Deputy Corporation Counsel next
<br />to me who can answer that question.
<br />MELLON-LACEY: If you have a County computer, if you do get one that the County
<br />purchases for your use, as I understand it, you wouldn't be keeping that computer. You
<br />would have it to utilize during the course of this task, this Commission's task. So, you
<br />could not use that based on your ethics presentation today, to send emails to your friends,
<br />and go on, do social media. So, if you take one there it's going to be dedicated to that
<br />with the software on it. You know, it's a little unclear to me what the plan is here
<br />because the license for the software, I don't have the details on how many licenses we get
<br />and what the limitations of those licenses are. I haven't seen that information. So, you
<br />know, it may be, personally hearing this, I think it would the safest for everybody to have
<br />a computer that the County purchases and it's dedicated to this task and the software is
<br />put on that, the license is on it, then it's very clear that you couldn't possibly, or you
<br />could possibly, but I mean, it's very clear it's not going to mix with your personal
<br />business. Because, your ability to use this should only be for the work of this
<br />Commission, and if you did put it on your own computer, if you would be allowed to do
<br />that, and I think we would have to know what the vendor thought, you would not, it
<br />would not be for the purposes of you, let's say your cousin in Santa Barbara calls you and
<br />says, "Hey! I know you got this software on your computer and I want you to calculate
<br />this for, you know, the district where I live based on whether I think this is fair or not."
<br />That wouldn't be a permitted use. So, I'm not as clear. I haven't seen what these
<br />agreements are supposed to be like with this software, but I think there's limitations. In
<br />that regard, you'd probably be safest using a County computer.
<br />KOSSOW: Thank you.
<br />NAKAMOTO: Okay, as far as the license for the software, the State will purchase this
<br />is just an example —maybe a hundred license and at any given time, the public, as well as
<br />the Commissioners, would be able to sign in using a license, and you would create your
<br />plan, and then you would save your plan. So, those license are meant to be shared.
<br />LUL You mentioned, Pat, that actually members of the public could use it to submit
<br />alternate plans and would therefore need to have access to it. So, it doesn't seem like it
<br />would be such a problem to use your own computer.
<br />MELLON-LACEY: Well, I guess what's not clear to me, you know, is whether we're
<br />actually putting some kind of software on our own device or more likely, logging in to
<br />something that they have. And, if it's the latter, and you're logging in then I would think
<br />it would not be the same kind of problem, but it's hard to speak when you don't know
<br />exactly how it works.
<br />NAKAMOTO: That's how that's how it would be. You would log in. The public
<br />would log in.
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