2007-05-09 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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Board of Ethics Minutes of Regular Session May 9, 2007 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. Review and comment on the Hawaii County Board of Ethics Booklet for new employees, board and commission members, and elected officials. BT: We want to get this right because this is the first time that we are putting out any kind of major publication out of our office. It is the first time for the Board of Ethics. It is going to be the first time that anything like this is coming out of Corporation Counsel. AL: I am so happy with it that I don't even want to talk about these things, these errors. BT: No, no we want those. KD: We want those, better now than when it becomes public, please. AL: Okay, I am on page 4, examples of prohibited private comma personal comma or business activities. Prohibited private personal or business uses need some commas in there, first sentence. Isn't it private comma and personal? I like my serial comma in there. I was raised old school and I put all my serial commas in. KS: So private comma personal .... AL: Well, you can say private comma personal if you don't do serial commas. But above it you have private comma personal comma, so I would do the same thing there. I'm sure I missed, bound to miss something. Page 8, under boards and commissions required to file disclosures, one, two, three, fourth line; since you have commissions capitalized, Liquor Adjudication Commission should be capitalized. Page 10, Advisory Opinions, who may request, bottom of the page, BOE, you haven't used that before, it has always been written out Board of Ethics. And I think only one more. Page 13, email is generally written e -mail, unless it's changed. KD: I think you can go either way. AL: Can it? KS: Where is it? AL: E -mail, I have always seen it written with a hyphen. KD: I think that now it is accepted without a hyphen. AL: Okay, fine. I have an s. The term business includes non - profit organizations, probably should be an s on the bottom of that one? 10