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at the State legislature, and I feel that Mr. Fuke is covered. Now if he were an
<br />attorney, he could be doing the exact same work that he's doing and he's not
<br />required to register, if he were an attorney.
<br />CHAIR: I guess that's your career path, huh? Next step.
<br />BLT: And furthermore, in my evaluation of the Code, it appears that you have to do a
<br />separate registration for each separate client, and you also have to file a separate
<br />six -month report for each client if you exceed that expenditure amount. And then
<br />when you no longer represent that client, then you need to also notify the County.
<br />CHAIR: Let me say that I before she just did that beautiful summaryI pretty much
<br />arrived, by her criteria, I pretty much arrived at the same conclusion myself, so I
<br />don't know, is planning consultant business getting more complicated. Would
<br />you like to speak on your behalf here?
<br />FUKE: And I appreciate her comments, as well as Mr. Frankel. I don't think that Frankel
<br />intended to direct his comments to meI think he's using me more as an
<br />CHAIR: - -an example
<br />FUKE: - -as an example. And as a result, like —the conclusion that the Board reaches has
<br />widespread implication. It applies not only to people like in my profession, but
<br />people who go before any boards or agencies, or even for that matter, as it's
<br />defined right now, come —any administrative, administrator. If you go look for
<br />the chief —the Director of Public Works, for example, and have your construction
<br />plans reviewed by a civil engineer. If you go before the Tax Appeals Board and
<br />try to help someone else, for compensation, that would also be covered, because
<br />it's an administrative agency. So it's —and the only person that would be exempt
<br />would be if you're a lawyer. But ironically, you know, like whatever you do, it's
<br />the same thing as what a lawyer would do. And so I can't understand the
<br />distinction. But be that as it may, whatever the Board decides, you know, we'd
<br />have to all comply with that, and certainly we'll comply. What I kind of wanted
<br />to just share a little bit more on this, because I spent this morning just trying to
<br />prepare. Let me just go through it. You know, I'm not here like necessarily to
<br />advocate whether people in my profession, or people who go before boards and
<br />commissions, or go to any administrative agencies or before the County Council,
<br />to say that, you know, you should or should not be considered a lobbyist. You
<br />know, that's obviously an interpretation that this Board would have to make. But,
<br />I wanted to explain what I do, what other people like in my profession do, and
<br />from that you can kind of hope and make a decision like whether we're covered
<br />or not covered. In terms of like what I do, and give you just generally my
<br />background. I've got a masters in urban planning from the University of Illinois.
<br />I worked for the County Planning Department for over 13 years, and eight years
<br />of which was as Planning Director. And over the last 20 years, I served as a
<br />planning consultant. And now, what exactly is planning consultant? It ranges
<br />it's all applicant- driven. So you may have, for example, a simple situation is what
<br />happened over two months ago. You have this old, kind of elderly couple that
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