2004-07-14 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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CHAIR: Okay, is everybody done? RW: I'm done. CHAIR: Okay. Any questions about any of the Gift Disclosures? RW: I've got concerns. Should I state them? Well, we have 2 members of our council, including the chair and Mr. Reynolds for taking gifts... although the amount, is clearly... that it could involve a conflict of interest to some point when you look at the donors. Maybe I could direct you attention to James Arakaki's gifts and to Joseph Reynold's gifts. CHAIR: Specifically, what do you... RW: Specially, you've got 2 major land developers, Hapuna Prince and Hokuli'a giving out gifts which aren't in a principle sum. Would certainly raise the concern in my mind whether he would recuse himself on any future land reclassification decisions... or other issues of these two major island investors. I'm looking at the definition of gifts... of what that includes and what it could infer that this would in some way be intended to influence his future voting. Same with Mr. Reynolds. We've got... I don't know who Hansen Technologies Systems are in Sacramento. That was a pretty nice little gift. Is that Rene Mansho the former council person on Oahu by the way, out there looking to do recycling on this island? I don't know if that's lobbying. I don't know who Barry Parker is for Hokuli'a. Probably Hokuli'a... probably Hokuli'a, would guess a Hokuli'a representative. BLT: On that one, I can answer because I did receive phone calls from staff on some of these. And on that one, I had actually advised Mr. Reynolds' staff person, that that one didn't even need to be listed, `cause Barry Parker is a personal friend... RW: Oh. BLT: who happens to be a property owner at Hokuli'a. RW: Okay. BLT: And there are mutual exchanges of gifts, but they wanted to air on the side of the Disclosure, but he is not a Hokuli'a employee or lobbyist. He's just a personal friend who happens to have golf membership. Mr. Reynolds... RW: Okay. 4