2004-11-10 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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there's a disagreement of how certain things should be done. But that doesn't mean that that's something for the Board of Ethics should consider. For example, Hilo is with the Police Commission. Trading whether they have the authority to speak before the Council. That's not an issue for the Board of Ethics. And he admits that that's not an issue. But yet, he brings it up. He shouldn't have brought it up. And because he brings it up, to me, it's just to encourage you to find something wrong. You shouldn't use that kind of problems with the Police Commission to find something wrong. We have to stick to the issue in this case. What did he do to gain some kind of benefit... not only for himself, but for Manago Hotel and the restaurant. Another example, he talks about the Charter violations, he talks about Section 7 to that too and he says, "Well, we can't let anything into the Charter to see what " which is right. I mean, like the Mayor goes around and talks to the public and that's not listed in as to one of his powers... but he does it anyway. And do we find the Mayor to be in violation of the Charter because of that? I say, "No." That doesn't make sense. We have to kinda step back sometimes and then think about why we have the Charter. It's a hard one. And although you're not here to really decide that issue, I think I have to respond `cause he brought it up. In reading the Charter, and I'm glad that he made you Exhibits of all the Charter, 7.7.2. Yes, it talks about the pertinent duties of how our Police Commission is. That's all it does. And so, when a member of the public serves on the Police Commission and reads it that way, the way, they're going to read it and say, "Well, I have a duty to do this." I'm serving for me to do something else. I mean, this makes common sense to me. Okay, so we're not here to decide whether it's a violation of the Charter... I mean I'm talking about it because he had talked about it. Neither are we here to decide whether certain conduct that Mr. Manago had done is illegal. We're not here to decide that too. He had used the word illegal many times during his oral presentation and in his written, he also states illegal, that's why... you know, you're not here to decide whether it's legal or not. It's for somebody else to decide that issue. That issue, has not been decided already. He wants you to take that issue, as background information and say, "Okay, this is where it's wrong." You know, that, to me, is wrong. To have you guys, hear all the policies, here in this fashion. This is not the correct time to do this kind of airing out. You know, there's other ways to do it. When Mr. Manago went to talk to the County Council on the budget, I don't see any real problems with that. I don't see any problems with that. The County Council members, both of them were appreciative as we found out, because he presented some in detail. And even if the County 16