2005-04-12 Board of Ethics Minutes regular mc

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CHAIR: Ayes have it. Item 4, Communications, we have a letter from Corporation Counsel to nominate Karl Kawahara and Wayne Joseph to the Board of Ethics. MC: The letter was from Mayor Kim. CHAIR: I'm sorry, Mayor Kim. Got my parties mixed up. Do I have a motion to accept and file that letter? KI: I move that we accept and file the letter from Mayor Kim. CHAIR: Second? WJ: I'll second. CHAIR: And vote? KI: Aye. WJ: Aye. CHAIR: I'd like to —the Chair, if it would suit the Board, the Chair would like to move that we skip at this point right to Item number 6, New Business, and return later to Unfinished Business, in recognition that we have several folks who traveled a long way to be here, and we want to dispense with them that way. Mr.—Petition No. 2005 -02, Ronald Thiel, engineer with the Department of Public Works, contracts his services to various agencies in Alaska. Do you want to step forward and have a chair, and tell us your situation? What moved you to file this petition? THIEL: My name is Ronald Thiel. I'm a professional engineer and also an ex- traffic engineer from the State of Alaska. I'm working for the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division, in Kona for the County at this time and have the opportunity of pursuing my expertise in traffic engineering on some projects in Alaska. I am working through another engineering firm there, individual's name is Dave Gremer of Triad Engineering. He also has a firm in Hawaii and practices in Kona. I am not —but I'm not doing any work that is on the lava. CHAIR: On the lava—on this island. THIEL: Yeah.