2004-09-08 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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RW: Yes. You know what's another glitch too... and I add that these submissions are not necessarily correlated with campaign contributions. And you get the big picture, as you sit on the Board of Ethics, that someone is being compromised... eventually that so there's a disconnect there too. We get this Long Form filing and then campaign contributions go to some other agency. Where do they go... I don't know where it goes. CHAIR: County Clerks. DAN: County Clerks. RW: County Clerks... `cause the Elections Office is supposed to be available in the Elections Office. We need to do some research on that ... just for a housekeeping point of view. DAN: I'm wondering... I'm sorry, I didn't discuss this with Bobby Jean, don't think she noticed that that was an agenda item. I'm wondering, possibly whether just a January memo from the Board of Ethics to each of the Board and Commission a reminder, `cause that's when the new commissioners and board members come on board. You know as a reminder to the new commissioners to submit a Long Form. CHAIR: I don't know how many of them keep copies of their Long Form. PC: Very few. DAN: Yes, I would think. CHAIR: I think, at this stage of the game, what we need to do ... with this coming year is to require the Long Form from everybody and ask them to retain their Long Form. One thing that we've also noticed is that there's been some resistance every once in awhile from some of the people submitting, as to correctly submitting public valuations and so forth down the line. We even had one employee who's required to submit... to state that it's none of our business how much his property is worth. And if that's the case, if that happens again, I can't see us accepting that, because the Code of Ethics is very clear on what's required. He doesn't have to tell us dollar amount. But he shall abide by the Code of Ethics if he wants to operate. RW: And seriously, Diane, may we ask that you... since you're kind of a pivotal person here, explore...