2005-03-09 Board of Ethics Minutes regular mc

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mails to my terminal for this other stuff, and so I direct them to the other e -mail address, which is the Yahoo account which I access at home or in Bob's office on my lunch hour if I need to. But sometimes e -mails do come in to my County address because they know about e- mailing there. LV: That's understandable. You can't control who sends you what. LIVELY: Right. LV: It's only what you do with it. SC: I'm a little uncomfortable with the County van usage, too. About the County usage from —using it for the County meetings and then LV: Yeah, except if you follow what she was saying, it's a continuous use thing. She takes the County van to go to a meeting during the evening, but in the afternoon, on the way to that meeting, it's there, so I think that's reasonable. It sounds reasonable to me, as well as holding on to the van to use the next day. SC: What is the perception of the public, though? LV: The public may take a look and ask questions; however, I think the response and the rationale is valid. It wouldn't make sense for her to have to go to Keaau in her own vehicle, leave the County van here, come back and get the County van, and then go to the Pahoa one. SC: Unless you could—unless you were able to collect expenses going to theI'm just trying to look at it from the perspective of the public. KI: Am I to understand that you're compensated as part of your pay for your mileage and vehicle use? LIVELY: For—there's $100 reimbursement for mileage and gas, yes. KI: So why would you take a County vehicle? LIVELY: Well, that particular day, I was going to the meeting in Pahoa with the Department of Transportation for Bob, because he's in Washington, D.C., and then the following day I was going to a meeting in Pahala with the County vehicle which started at 9:30 in the morning. I really didn't want to take the County van, but because the County decided to reimburse me for mileage for the use of the car, my personal car, they R