2004-11-10 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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people buy into trust. I've gotten it. When they two - tenths of a mile from Manago Hotel. May I have some water.... So, whether intentional or not, I think... you know, the fact that they're playing their... I think....whether or not that was his principle objective or whether or not he even cared about it, it doesn't matter. Did he do it in such a way so that a member of the public would look at it and think, "Gee, Mr. Manago might have been pushing that button so he could get a Police Station built right down the street." And to me that is at least an apparent, if not, a real conflict of interest. Because I think, at least if the papers are correct, Mr. Manago has already admitted that it would be a benefit, an economic benefit to the Manago Hotel and Restaurant by having a large facility built a tenth of a mile down the street. I think probably everyone in this room has already gone to eat Mr. Manago's wonderful pork chops in his restaurant. And they are good. And I'm sure his business is going to profit, and he knows it. He admitted it. Now, if that's the case, Mr. Manago could have said to Mr. Hara and other members of the Commission, "Mr. Hara or Mr. , 1 think I'm in an apparent conflict of interest situation, think you're the one that should go forward with it." What would have been so difficult about that. Now, what you're going to be left with is perpetual monument. If you do nothing about this, what you're going to leave in this community is two perpetual monuments, who is obvious to me anyway, in my opinion, an obvious violation of the Code of Ethics. Every time somebody drives by the nice Police Station and Manago Hotel, many are going to remember that Mr. Manago was very instrumental in getting that done. Now, everybody agrees that what he did was defective. In fact, you know, even though I disagreed with Mr. Manago going before the County Council, I went to watch him testify. I went to watch him testify. I went to watch him testify because I wanted to hear what the Police said about the budget and what he said about the budget. He did a marvelous job. After the , 1 told him, I shook his hand and I said, "I think you did a good job." But, you can also tell that to a carpenter who builds a beautiful house on the wrong lot without a contract. And that's what happened here. He did a wonderful job doing something that he wasn't supposed to do. And doing something, in my opinion, was a conflict of interest. I don't know what Mr. Kamelamela is going to say about this, but I heard the following comments. Comment 1) Well, the old station is to my hotel than up the street. The old station... substation there is a lot smaller and is about a tenth of mile. The other one is two - tenths of a mile away. I fail to understand how that justifies that it anyway mitigates what Mr. Manago did in this situation, they're getting a way bigger building with more people. But more importantly than 10