2008-02-13 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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YAGONG: Normally we'd ask as we talk story to people, oh, how did you hear about the meeting? 1 will tell you a large percent will say they had seen the ad in the paper. But the thing that was really engaging to me was that people from outside the district would compliment me on my— what's that word they use— DILL: Your looks? YAGONG: It's not my face, that's for sure —but they'd compliment me on being out in the community, you know, and working on issues. And I think some of these issues are not easy, you know, but we don't run away from issues . Mud Lane, for example, last night, as an example. There's certainly conflict as far as that issue, so we don't run away from that. But we get a lot of compliments from people saying that, you know, I'm glad that you folks are out there doing this. And that's an example of how- LUM: - -When you're trying to use it —like the sugar mill. Did you get as good a response on this one, compared to the population- YAGONG: Yeah, that one 1 would say would be difficult, because we had all the —the community association of the area contacted us and wanted this meeting, so we did have letters to all the members of the community association. So that one there, a lot of people showed up for that meeting. But I think we also had that data base of association members that allowed us to have such a great turnout. That ad that you read there was because, although its association for that Old Mill Road in Pepeekeo, which is below the highway- LUM: - -Yeah, yeah- YAGONG: But it is really a community -wide issue, because the upper guys use that for fishing access and so forth, so that's why we had to run an ad. Because we didn't want it to be exclusive, just for the folks that live on the road, and we picked the wheel, the gears wheel —hope people recognize it —but that was a form of trying to do it where not to run the photo. If we could we try to do it that way as well. But a lot of people did come to that meeting, absolutely. But we certainly had a beat on the community association that lived around the area. I think about 67 people showed up to that meeting. It was a great meeting. LUM: Thank you. YAGONG: Yeah. Very good meeting. LUM: So perhaps different kinds of images can be —could be used to the same, to some of the same effect- YAGONG: -- Absolutely- LUM: - -after political season starts to attract eyes to read the information. 16