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Board of Ethics <br />Minutes of Regular Session <br />May 9, 2007 <br />KS: Yeah. <br />[Inaudible] <br />BT: It's just the office. <br />KS: Would you give them a timeline, not a timeline but, all new employees will receive this <br />document within the first six months of their employment period, all existing employees will <br />receive this document by December 1, 2007, is that a little nit - picky? <br />BT: Well, I think you should shoot for sooner. Obviously they have to do it, but there is a <br />new fiscal year coming up, July 1, that's as soon as these can be printed up, because they can be <br />done by our machine room so it is not that huge of cost to the county. It can be done internally. <br />Ask that it be distributed. <br />KS: I would like to suggest that this letter include these timelines and then that we will- -a <br />statement - -that we will check up, if it is within our power. In other words, can we go to the <br />human resources office and say "How many people haven't gotten it, or how many ... T' <br />BT: You know the mayor can adopt it as policy. <br />KS: That's what I'm asking. <br />BT: So, you say that you are going to ask the mayor if he can adopt it as a policy. That every <br />new employee and every existing employee should be given a copy and this should also be made <br />available to the general public at the County Clerk's office. <br />KS: That's what ... that would be the best. <br />BT: And to every newly elected .... <br />KS: Every elected official. <br />BT: Yes, every elected official. When I went for my initial confirmation meeting, it actually <br />came up. They asked "Well, how do you insure? What do you do to make sure that county <br />employees treat their equipment properly and don't misuse it and what not ?" I said the first <br />thing is training and education of employees, because they need to know what the rules are. <br />After the meeting I said this is a caveat, this is a draft I'm sending you. This is a courtesy. The <br />board is looking at this and we are about to put this together as a publication. I got several thank <br />yous from the council members, they were excited. <br />AL: Happy to know that we are doing something. <br />BT: Hey, you know how long we've had a board? We have had an ethics code since the <br />1960's and we've never done a publication. <br />13 <br />