2007-07-11 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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Chair: Is your statement true and accurate to the best of your knowledge? Mattos: Yes, it is. Chair: Board members, did you have an opportunity to look at witness statement number three? Do you know why you were called as a witness today? Mattos: Yeah, I understand that the Boys and Girls Club was named in documentation in regards to a bike that did not come from Mrs. Nae `ole, although we made a connection and I presented it at her Pahoa Town Meeting a few months back. We decided to use that bike as an opportunity to award one of our Pahoa Club kids, well deserved. It was a great opportunity to do this in front of the two members' parents, family members, and people from the community. Chair: Just for the record, there were two bikes, correct? Mattos: Correct, two bikes. Chair: Two bikes, and two bikes were given to under - privileged youth of the Pahoa Community- Mattos: Correct. Correct, a few months back, I think back in December. Either at the ending of December or the beginning of January, Oceanic Cablevision called me from O `ahu, their personnel office, and said they were doing a management training here and the activity was to divide up their management team and put these two bikes together for kids. They offered the bikes to us, because they were going to do their management training here, and we accepted. In the interim I got to know Mrs. Nae `ole, and ironic enough, when we got a call back that the bikes were done, that the management training was done, I was also invited —well, previous to that, actually at that point we were deciding which kids to give the —to what group, or to what club, and I decided to give it to the Pahoa club. So the directors there was assessing which kids to give them to. It was given to two teen -aged girls. Then I was invited to the Pahoa Town Meeting, which was great timing, and so we decided to use that along with having the Oceanic Cable come with me to do the presentation and explain what the project was about and then present this to the two deserving teenagers. Chair: Did Mrs. Nae`ole ask you to use those two bikes in any other way other than what was done? Mattos: Initially— initially, when I told her that I had these bikes, she asked me if they could be used as a drawing for gathering as an incentive to have more people there —I had told her —I did consider it. However, when I talked with the staff and the club director of the Pahoa club, they felt that these two girls were well deserved, was well deserving of these bikes as great role models, and we decided to take that route instead. So when I let Mrs.