2004-11-10 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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Council , get the property in x place. I mean, if he had said that, "Let's get the property in Captain Cook." Maybe, there's a violation. But I haven't seen anything written or discussed, that says that that's what he said. You know, "Let's get this particular land site for the new Police Station and Fire Station complex." There's nothing like that, okay. He talks , yet he talks about training, but is it Manago's fault that they need... you know, somebody , but, training, that's separate. You have to decide on what kind of issues. We're here to decide whether there is an ethical violation of 2 -83. That's all we're are here to decide. Whether there's a conflict of interest and before I really start on that issue, I want to comment on Exhibit 5 that was sent by Mr. deSilva. What Corporation Counsel Ashida was talking about, if you look at sentence number two, if a commissioner goes to the Council, so then he's there, there's if he and makes recommendations, that may create conflict. Now, the conflict that he refers to is that, which may not with the Mayor's budget... oh, you don't have the response. RW: Yeah. Don't know... Kamelamela: If Mr. Manago had stated something that was different from what he says to the Mayor, that is a potential conflict. That is what the reference is being made to. The reference is not saying that, "Hey, commissioner, you cannot talk to the County Council." That issue hasn't been made or really yet. But, I guess this is the not body to litigate decide it. We focus on what this particular complaint is about. What is this complaint about? You know, I'll really be honest... I don't know what this is about. Although he said that certain things happened on a certain date, January and March. He's claiming that in some fashion, my client, Mr. Manago, had influenced people to get up and make a cut. Now, I haven't seen anything, so far, to indicate to me that 1) that he even owns the property... if he owns the property, I can see that there's a problem. 2) Anything in writing or other testimony where maybe he indicated, "Hey, I would rather this perfect site in Captain Cook." Because it's going to be closer. What about things like that? To me, that would be a clear violation of section 2 -83. All I have is deSilva alleges that Manago could possibly reap the benefits that anybody else would get, okay? It's not like people can't get better response time. I think because it's moving away from Mr. Manago's place, the response time will be increased. `Cause right now, there's a police station next to him... it's just a stone's throw away from him. But they're moving the location to another area to better serve the community. There's nothing wrong with that. All know is that deSilva talked about Nixon, but you know, Nixon did 17