2004-11-10 Board of Ethics Minutes REG pc

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position, but you're anointed. In other words, we have... to become a police commissioner; report to a meeting and sit down and understand all the complexities of General Orders, the complexities of promotion policies; to understand the disciplinary system; to understand arrest? reasoning and thinking when it comes to making decisions; and under the leadership of Mr. Hara and Mr. Manago, we have no training program. And I'd like to suggest to you, that it is not the Mayor's responsibility to create a training program. It isn't the Corporation Counsel's responsibility to train or create a training program. It's the Police Commission's responsibility to provide themselves with a training program, because they're supposed to be the experts on police review. Now, all you have to do is look in the back of... or look at the website. There's a national organization on police review. All you have to do is get a training program from there, modify it and apply it. What happens in the Commission is, they... not having any pay ?, they've come to define their own role right, they didn't come to do concerning the budget. We have no role to lobby the Council. They've come to define that as their own role. Now, if you looked at Mr. Hara's exhibit, he said... well... and I've heard Mr. Manago say this to me once too at a meeting, "The Charter doesn't say that we can't do that." Now, you know, I ask you, if you get any lawyer to write a provision in the Charter saying what your powers and duties are, would you expect that he would write down all the things that you can't do? You know, you'd have a book fifty pages long, about things that you can't do. So the way the Charter is written, if we read it in manner, all the types , what the Fire Department's supposed to do, what the Police Commissioner's supposed to do and we're supposed to read together. If that isn't true, there is nothing in here in the Charter that would even imply that we're supposed be a lobby for the Police Department before the County Council.. Now, that's all background information. Because the real question before us is whether or not Mr. Manago, as a government official, used his office to secure... helped to secure unwarranted advantage for himself or others... that's what it says. Now, what did Mr. Manago do. Not only did he he tried to advance the budget before the Mayor, before the County Council. He came to Kona and organized about ninety of his friends or people that know him, to come to the Council meeting to push for the budget. Now, I think that's good, and I think even if intentions might be good, but that's not why we're here. You know, if I'm with an official, call the public trust. And when it comes to apparent conflict of interest, principle ethics exists so that on Mr. Manago and know what a nice man he is and so forth. Who only knows that Mr. Manago would tell Mr. Manago and the Police Commissioner. I know 3]