2006-12-13 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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Board of Ethics Minutes - Regular Session December 13, 2006 5. NEW BUSINESS Election of Chairman and Vice - Chairman for 2007. Motion and Vote: Ms. Sharpless moved to nominate Wayne Joseph as Chair of the Ethics Committee for the year 2007; Ms. Lum seconded the motion; all members voted aye, motion carried. Motion and Vote: Ms. Sharpless nominated Ann Lum to be Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee for the year 2007; Ms. Lum seconded the motion; all members voted aye, motion carried. 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. Review of a draft letter to County Council re Changes to Section 29- 11(C)5, the removal of the wording "in the County of Hawaii, and to Section 29- 1.1(C)8, updating of the financial amount code. WJ: Did everyone have a chance to read this? AL: The only changes were on page 2. In fact we talked about it last time, description of real property anyplace, and then the changes in the money. BLT: I created a paragraph below those changes which tries to explain the rationale and purpose for those changes. That is the part that you should probably look at the closest, to see if that reflects your intent in terms of proposing the amendments. AL: That is clear. KS: Yeah, that is good. Motion and Vote: Ms. Kendall moved to accept the December 13, 2006 letter regarding amendments to the county code Financial Disclosure Requirement and send it to Council; Mrs. Lum seconded the motion; all members voted aye, motion carried. b. Review of a draft Hawaii County Board of Ethics Handout for new employees, board and commission members, and elected officials. BLT: One thing I wanted to note. When I was doing this I swore that there used to be a provision in the county code on post - employment that exempted people who had only been employed for six months or less from that post - employment restriction. The state law says that if you have been employed for 180 days or less, then the 12 -month employment restriction does not apply to you, but there is no such language in the Hawaii County Code. So we have a 12- month employment restriction. If we hire somebody for three months, let's say we have a building inspector, and we have a shortage and we need to fill this position. We hire somebody 31