2005-11-09 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular mc

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CHAIR: Counsel, help me out. Do we need to really rule on these things? Are we really the for this WJ: I have the lobbyist form in front of me. I'd like to know exactly what FUKE: It just says over here, like entertainment and food and beverage, for example. WJ: But if you go to the last page, I think the last page clarifies the specifics of everything. FUKE: It says here expenditures incurred in the total sum of $25 or more per person per day , so my question is, if your lunch is $30 and his share was $15, or whatever, does that get reported, although the cumulative amount is $25? But by reading this, it would seem to be no, because you spent only $15. WJ: I tend to say no. I would agree with your CHAIR: Pat, can you help us on this? Actually, who is the keeper of this form, and who is the evaluator of this form? The County Clerk, is it not? PKO: It's filed with the Clerk, but it's a condition of the Ethics Code, and I think it's appropriate for him to ask you and they can change the form. CHAIR: I take a very broad reading myself. I think we're all pretty level about that. FUKE: And the last question I have is related to our bread and butter, which is like the fees and allowances. And that's like underI can't find the page where it talks about how do you report—it says list all contributions received by you for the purpose of lobbying in the total sum of $25 per Do I need to disclose what is my compensation from the ? CHAIR: Well, I would say , and your remuneration is $5,000, you know, payment, then basically that would be—you're a lobbyist—be a lobbyist —and a planning consultant's fee but it would not be a . The only reason you're getting a payment in the first place is to accomplish rezoning FUKE: It's really —I'll give you a specific situation on the change of zone. A traditional lobbyist would not do anything apart from just lobby. CHAIR: Right. FUKE: What I would have to do is, I'd have to prepare the and to the environmental report and all that stuff, and my fees are all kind of wrapped up in it. So, I don't have like a separate fee forI mean, if you do it by the hourly basis then I think you can just kind of make your separation, but for the 16