2007-01-10 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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Board of Ethics Minutes of Regular Session January 10, 2007 RW: I call for the question. WJ: Good. Shall we defer? All in favor say aye. Motion and Vote: Ms. Lum made a motion to defer Communication 2007 -05 to the next scheduled session to allow Lincoln Ashida time to comment on the issue; Mr. Williams seconded the motion; all members voted aye, motion carried. WJ: It's been deferred let's move on to new business. 5. NEW BUSINESS Review rules of practice and procedure of the Board of Ethics. KS: I tried to make some sort of grid, a matrix. I like boxes, but, impossible. While ours looks kind of old, the State rules are actually older than ours. At least according to this date, I think. AL: Ours looks old because of the typewriter. KS: Yeah, but if it is typed and not computerized that is something that is serious, because to revise it, you have to be able to scan it or something. To me, just going through like purpose, I get confused about the legalize, if there is one word different. There are some real subtle differences throughout; our index is different, our collection of definitions is different. The State Board footnoting system is beyond me, I don't understand it at all. We don't have very many references cited, like if it came out of the code or the HRS or something like that which is fine with me, because I don't understand this at all. AL: Do you think it sort of cites it in general under 1.1 Purpose, kind of gives us a big lump where it all comes from and then.... KS: I'm sorry I don't understand the question. AL: Rather than citing each section as you go along, it just says it comes from Article 14 of the Charter, 1980 and then the Code 15.... . KS: Well, I don't even know if we need to do that. To make ethics user friendly, this kind of thing, like on the State Ethics they have a parenthesis it says EFF parenthesis, then there is another parenthesis, brackets.... Like what? See like here. BLT: That is the effective date of that. KS: Oh, well fine, but do we need to do that? I don't think so. So if we are trying to make this a user friendly document, making clear wording like in the Rules of Evidence