2005-03-09 Board of Ethics Minutes regular mc

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folks thought. As an example, last FridayI'm also a council aide for Bob Jacobson —last Friday, Bob was in Washington, D.C. He sent me to a meeting in Pahala. Now on Thursday, before the Friday meeting, I had a meeting in Keaau that I facilitated at under one of the contracts here, after work, for Bob. But I also had a meeting that night in Pahoa that I attended for Bob, that was with the Department of Transportation. And because I was going to Pahala on Friday, we used the County van. So when I went to my meeting after work in Keaau under the contract, I did drive the County van, because I was taking it to a meeting in Pahoa and also the next day's meeting in Pahala, so there are some situations where I am, I guess, forced, to beI don't know, share resources? I don't know if it's important. The facilitation that I do under contact is basically in the evenings or on the weekends, so they normally don't interfere with my regular work hours, and I work from home, I have a computer there. There's also a computer in Bob's office, that's a personal computer that he pays for internet service that he allows me to access to use the e -mail during my lunch time. I've recently picked up a second contract, and so it's just getting, I don't know, more involved. I guess more instances where there may be a possibility of being, I don't know, using both resources, orI don't know, hopefully you guys can straighten it out. Another example I do —one of the contracts is funded from the Meth Initiative grant, and so that work— CHAIR: What kind of grant—what is that? LIVELY: The Meth Initiative is a grant through the Hawaii County Resource Center. Anyway, that work is supposed to be limited to drugs, so basically what I'll do is I go work at night community meetings and put together presentations by the Police Department, the Prosecutor's Office, and give presentations to community groups dealing with the community impact of drugs, ice specifically. Now there's also a couple of instances where I —like, for instance, tomorrow I'm doing a meeting in Hawaiian Acres. Initially this came to me from Bob Jacobson because he's a resident there, and there were some neighbors that were complaining, and so I organized this community meeting. Now I was using the resources and the connections that I have to resource that, organize this meeting, but it's actually something I'm doing it as his aide and not as a facilitator for the Resource Center, so, it can get very complicated. But Bob feels, and do 1, that whatever things I'm doing , so he really has a hard time with— CHAIR: , yeah.