2004-06-18 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii County Police Commissioner Regular Session Minutes June 18, 2004 Page 19 DE SILVA: And personal service. Personal service bothers me a little bit, but I don't know. BERTSCH: I'm not against it. Maybe I'm using the wrong term, but that's why I think that statement is a bit nefarious. The way I read it is that it's all encompassing, and in order for me to abide by f), I have to severe all communication and all ties with the police department so that there is no misinterpretation of that. And all I can do is do what I'm supposed to be doing which, quite frankly, I'm not prepared to do because I deal with these guys all the time, not in a business. If I'd known that being a police commissioner all of a sudden, I'm not allowed to do business with the county, because theoretically I do business with the county all the time. Now, granted if all of a sudden the Chief comes to me and gives me a $2 million contract because I'm the commissioner, and it wasn't put out to bid or there wasn't a formal bid procedure, yes, I think the community's going to take care of that quicker than any rule we're going to have on this in here. FRAZIER: What about personal services. HARA: At this point in time, we're losing people. Can we suspend this to the next meeting because we're missing three commissioners? We stop right there and continue on to paragraph c) There must be no self - dealing or any conduct. BERTSCH: I guess this was the other point I was trying to make. For some reason I had it in my head that the ad hoc committee was going to go through all of these and because I knew that going through this is going to take a meeting in itself, and so that's why I recommended we have the special meeting, and maybe I wasn't paying attention. The last of my intent was to ask for a special meeting to go through all of these. DE SILVA: That isn't a bad idea. BERTSCH: May be the ad hoc committee can go through these unless we're already through with them. HARA: Call another ad hoc committee? DE SILVA: I think these things are important for everybody. BERTSCH: Why don't we chip away at it meeting by meeting? HARA: Yeah, if you don't mind the detail.