2007-05-09 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

Home

Board of Ethics Minutes of Regular Session May 9, 2007 4. COMMUNICATIONS Communication 2007 -27: Letter of resignation from the Board of Ethics by Kerry Inouye to Mayor Harry Kim dated April 4, 2007. Motion and Vote: Ms. Lum moved to accept and file Communication 2007 -27 and send him a letter of appreciation; Mr. Dill seconded the motion. All members voted aye. Motion carried. Communication 2007 -28: Letter of acceptance of resignation to Kerry Inouye from Mayor Harry Kim dated April 9, 2007. Motion and Vote: Ms. Lum moved to accept and file Communication 2007 -28; Mr. Dill seconded the motion. All members voted aye. Motion carried. 5. NEW BUSINESS Petition 2007 -03 Jerome Warren: Whether Christopher Yuen and Bob Jacobson violated Sections 2 -84(c) and 2 -84(d) of the Code of Ethics by supporting a sidewalk variance for Big Isle Ventures. WJ: Mr. Warren, would you like to come and take a chair here. We received your petition and in your petition you cited two sections; Sections 2 -84(c) and 2- 84(d). So for the members of the Board I would like to direct your attention to letters (c) and (d) and I think the most significant part of letters (c) and (d) is that your petition is going to show that someone within the county accepted compensation in exchange for a favor, is that correct? Do you have evidence that shows that? JW: The evidence I have is only what I've read in the Ka`u Calendar, that's kind of our local paper, and in there the paper states that money was donated by the applicant for this particular Bill 62 to the Honu `apo Fund, and I know that my councilman has been very active in that and if you kind of connect the dots you can see where Chris Manfredi is applying for rezoning and then if you go back through back issues, through this Ka`u Calendar, you can see where he has been kind of promoted as a benefactor to the community. That's the tie -in that I see. WJ: I'm still trying to see the connection here. Did you make copies of that, by the way, to share with the Board? JW: No. I was informed that this would be more of a pre- hearing and that we are just here to discuss whether or not there is an issue and then perhaps if that does become an issue then I have everything with me. I could copy it and annotate it if indeed that is an issue here. That is just my introduction to this was just watching the council meeting one evening and seeing a rezoning. Seeing the applicant not present, seeing the consultant not present, seeing Chris Yuen representing them, and seeing my councilman, Bob, kind of also representing them with these platitudes. 2