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be and then the amount of time you spent before the Council and all that <br />. So that has to be recorded in. <br />CHAIR: Yes. Lobbying, for the purpose of <br />FUKE: - -Would that be like part of the $275 cap or, because if it is, then obviously <br />everybody <br />CHAIR: You're going to be <br />FUKE: -- another $275 <br />that's what we spend. <br />BLT: The $275 is what you spend, according to this. It's under expenditures. There <br />is not as much clarityno, no, no, no. You must be paid or spend. You must <br />be paid and you must spend more than $275. <br />PKO: Paid any amount, or <br />BLT: - -you can be paid anything. They can pay him $100,000 for his work, but if he <br />doesn't spend more than $275 lobbying, he doesn't have to file a report. You <br />know, like if the $100,000 goes for botanists, archeologists, and all of that <br />stuff, none of that gets reported because that's not lobbying. <br />PKO: But what about the time he spends lobbying. <br />BLT: That he has to figure out <br />PKO: - -if it doesn't amount to $275, it's not. It's like five bucks of his time actually <br />lobbying. <br />BLT: Well actually the lobbying, I think, falls more into the, what is it, five hours. I <br />think when you're looking at expenditures, it's like—taking people out to <br />lunch, did he pay for advertising. Did he, you know, provide , <br />cover aerial photographs, hire a helicopter to fly over it, you know, that kind of <br />stuff. <br />FUKE: So if I were to not spend more than $275 over a six -month period, and not <br />spend more than five hours a month, you know, on that particular activity <br />CHAIR: - -or actually lobbying. <br />FUKE: Correct, yeah. Then I don't have to file a report which would then disclose my <br />compensation for my work? <br />BLT: Right, exactly. <br />FUKE: It's easier to just keep everything below that. <br />IM <br />