2005-04-12 Board of Ethics Minutes regular mc

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affordable housing —it's part of our County ordinances. We have programs where we give extra credit forI guess we can't, you know, we have some things where we have programs that the County has established to provide charitable services. We participated—we would participate in Food Bank as a County. And those are done all on County time, with civil servants, those fund - raising activities and blood drive. There are a lot of charitable services, and the Food Bank is the one that I think particularly goes to the indigent, and those are done throughout the County. Fire fighters do the collection of that, so I think that there's definitely a policy that the County has embraced, and that the Mayor has embraced, that we do care about the indigent and that— CHAIR: - -and community based organizations- BJLT: - -and community based organizations, and we also give money. We have $900,000 a year that we give out to community based organizations. So, you know, I think that when you're looking at that umbrella of —where there's a policy of reaching out to the indigentI think it's clear that it's embraced and it's consistent with the County, and I do want to make a point that when it's stuff like the Food Bank, the entire County participates in that, on County time. CHAIR: And they have no council resolution which specifically calls for that, actually, you know, or law, so no enabling legislation per se, then, really. BJLT: No, it's just something that —it's something that, you know, has come down saying that these services reach out to the community, it reaches out to the poorest, and we embrace it, and we—we collect food on County time, we set up collection stations, we set up at fire departments as collection points for Food Bank, and so I think that we've embraced that concept that we are supposed to reach out, and that as the County, we're supposed to be a part of CHAIR: -- WJ: Oh, I have no problem. I admire what you're going. 11 just, the wording needs to be proper, and I think we should all give back to the community in one way or another. And it's admirable. KK: I was just thinking, if I may have the legal counsel's opinion on it. This is a small town, we all know each other, and I just happen to know quite a bit of guys on the Corporation Counsel, who were my former students Torigoe, and Patsy, and all that, including the lady there. IN