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BURNS: It was actually to Mr. Ashida with a copy to Mr. Hoffmann. <br />SHARPLESS: And then you did not receive any reply verbal, written, telephone, email, in <br />response to that letter? <br />BURNS: Not from Mr. Hoffmann. <br />CHAIR: And when was that? <br />SHARPLESS: But did you receive any, from anybody? <br />BURNS: Mr. Ashida said that maybe the only, you know—he told me about the Board <br />of Ethics' procedures and, you know, said that, you know, if Mr. Hoffmann <br />didn't respond that maybe this was an avenue. <br />SHARPLESS: <br />Okay. Thank you. <br />CHAIR: <br />And when was that letter submitted? <br />BURNS: <br />The letter was probably submitted about a month ago, I think. <br />ASHIDA: <br />It's been awhile. My recollection is it was a letter to the Mayor, right? <br />BURNS: <br />Yeah, I copied the Mayor's Office on it, too. It justI mean, I justI'm not <br />trying to make a big deal of this, and I really don't want Mr. Jacobson, you <br />know, punished or anything. My purpose for doing this is to get him more in <br />control and more courteous to the people. I mean, when somebody testifies <br />that there's 250 million dollars of loans out there that could—people could go <br />belly up, and he says, well that's too bad, because I can't get a loan for my <br />property, I don't have any sympathy for you. I mean, that's not courteous, <br />that's not respectful to the public. And I just, I don't know, I guess my interest <br />is to work together and create legislation <br />CHAIR: <br />But since you initiated that letter, has any of that occurred? <br />BURNS: No, he continued. The last Council meeting he went on again about this <br />Hawaiian Acres thing and how the engineers above him have created all this <br />flooding. Again a public statement that the engineers have created flooding. <br />CHAIR: I'm trying to get a timetable in my head. <br />BURNS: If it had stopped, you know, after —you know, Mr. Hoffmann didn't have to <br />respond to me directly. He could have just spoken to them and they, you <br />know, change their behavior. But when another statement was made regarding <br />the Hawaiian Acres project that was misleading regarding the role of engineers <br />and the flooding that occurs there, I mean —it's obvious that he's going to <br />continue to make it up as he goes along. And I don't think that's what our <br />County Council people are supposed to be doing. They're supposed to be <br />27 <br />