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Board of Ethics <br />Minutes - Regular Session <br />December 13, 2006 <br />AL: Or the other way around. <br />KS: Or the other way around. My other thing is on page 2 where it says that you <br />should not attend a campaign event in a county vehicle. You shouldn't but you did, so what? <br />AL: You want to say "do not attend" for example? <br />KS: Yeah, I am looking at it from a very adverse position. This document actually is <br />not an adverse document; it is supposed to be user friendly. We are trying to make ethics <br />something; I mean we want ethics to be part of people's lives. It is just the way the printing is, <br />or the bolding is, that is getting me confused or something, I don't know. Like this one is really <br />short and sweet -- great. <br />BLT: That would be the last two pages. <br />AL: Right, but I think to be useful people need specific examples. I know where you <br />are coming from. Like this e -mail thing, you mean I can't play my games, you know? Why, it <br />only takes five minutes. Software that you might want to put on your computer.... <br />KS: Make my birthday cards.... <br />Al: Yeah, so I think that we do need to have specifics. <br />WJ: I think that when you have specifics like this and give examples then there is no <br />excuse. If it is provided to you in black and white, it showed you concrete examples. So, if you <br />cross that line, you should be held accountable. Is this going to be used for new employees? <br />BLT: Well, the idea was that this along with a copy of the actual Ethics Code would go <br />to department heads, supervisors, and the new employees and all the council members. They <br />have lots of new employees. Prospectively, it would go to every new employee. <br />WJ: As I understood it, the big problem with the county was that they weren't giving <br />their new employees proper orientations. That has been lapsed for many years. I think that is <br />something they are trying to renew again and it is something that needs to be done. <br />KS: This would be easier for me if the interpretive examples were italicized and <br />clearly.... <br />AL: I am against the italics because they are hard to read. <br />KS: Okay, okay. <br />AL: The big part should be italicized. Set apart some way. Very definitely set apart. <br />M <br />