2008-02-13 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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CHAIR: If not, could I ask for a ten - minute recess. DILL: Sure. 1 move- LUM: - -Do we need a motion? CHAIR: A ten - minute recess. (The meeting recessed from 11:15 a.m. to 10:25 a.m.) CHAIR: Call back to order. Okay, at this point, unless Board members have anyone they'd like to call or any questions they'd like to ask- MALANKA: I have a question. CHAIR: Yes? MALANKA: Why is this an issue? CHAIR: Why is what an issue? MALANKA: Looking into photos being in the newspaper. DILL: The Board initiated it. MALANKA: . Right, I understand that as well, and I just thought about it a lot more since our last meeting, and - LUM: - -1 have also really been thinking, and 1 think it comes down to a really fundamental —the idea of a picture and words. How different are they? I mean, how different is it to have a meeting announcement with just words, or a meeting announcement with pictures? Is one more self - promoting than the other? CHAIR: I have one here, by the way, by Mr. Donald Ikeda, and it looks like this. It just ran in yesterday's newspaper, and this is typical, I think, of what County meeting announcements from elected officials typically looked like in the past. LUM: And as you are reading through 20 pages of newspaper, does that hit you if it says community meeting? What community? I've really thought about it a lot, too, as to —I think Mr. Yagong used the word image- driven, and I think as we become a less and less literate society and more used to images, television, ads, you know, we're bombarded by that all the time. Our question —are pictures political promoting by their nature, or, you know, self - promoting by their nature, or are they becoming something else? So I think that's a difficult issue, because it's- MALANKA: Well, and if we are an image- driven society, then image is natural to use and it does not in my thought process conflict necessarily with what the idea is —to get 21