2005-11-09 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular mc

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most part, mine —it's like I believe more than 60 percent, then the client knows exactly what his exposure is if I can finish then I get more money, and if I finish CHAIR: - -Maybe you should consult out a lobbyist or something, you do the planning and work and put the lobbyist to the lobbying. I mean we're really splitting hairs, here. FUKE: I know. CHAIR: But I should think that would be probably one way to run the system. BLT: The material that I looked at, it does not require you to report everything that you are paid by your client. What it does is, it requires you, if the money is paid to you to do lobbying CHAIR: - -per se BLT: - -a proportion of it goes to lobbying, and you have to kind of apportion out. Like let's say you're paid $15,000. You tell somebody the fee is $15,000. When you're doing that, you're thinking that you're buying my expertise and we'll , but a portion of that time is actually spent before the Planning Commission. So you may need to apportion that out. But that really is your call in terms of how to do that. KI: And according to this, this letter, under Section 5, fees and allowances CHAIR: - -what are you BLT: - -the one from me. On page 4 KI: - -page 5. Page 5 , paragraph 5, fees and allowances. In bold letters it says the fees made for the purpose of lobbying, not anything else, simply lobbying. CHAIR: So your analysis, your packaging, your, you know, research or your write-up — I mean that's all yours not to report, right? FUKE: Okay. CHAIR: It's when you take the Planning Director to lunch, I think -- so I sort of commend you—compliment you, as well, for helping us clarify this, obeying the law, adhering literally to the letter of the law and the of the law, and for stimulating our thinking also. FUKE: I think I have an idea of how to handle that. Probably since I do a fixed fee basis, then you can just kind of apportion like what you're hourly rate would 17