2008-03-12 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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8. ANNOUNCEMENT CHAIR: For the next monthly meeting, I am requesting that the communication that was provided me in my quest to get the Executive Session minutes be listed under open communication. It would be simplest if everybody on the Board thought it was okay, but if not, I would still pursue it. LUM: This one? CHAIR: Yes. As you know, I- L UM: - -It does say —the one thing that worries me is this little notice up here, privileged and confidential communication, attorney - client communication, not a public record. So I think that somebody has to give us the proper advice on that. CHAIR: Okay. First of all, I think I'm the client. It was addressed to me. It was my communication with Corporation Counsel to get Executive Session minutes, and it was the results of many different discussions to get that. And I feel it's a personal thing, but the simplest way to get it on the agenda would be for everyone to agree. The hardest way to get it on the agenda is for me to just say I'm the client, and I'm waiving my client rights— L UM: - -But Renee is you wrote the letter, right? SCHOEN: Yeah, I wrote the letter, and if you guys don't have a problem with it, I do —I am hesitant in that the attachments to the letter— CHAIR: - -Well, I just want the letter itself. SCHOEN: Okay. LUM: Without the attachments? SCHOEN You know, the ODC CHAIR: - -It's not necessary to me. Just the letter itself is all I'm requesting. SCHOEN Oh, I mean — that's the worry. The ODC —our communication to ODC is— they treat it as confidential because it's us seeking advice on our own conduct, and so I'm hesitant to have that open in the public. And then the Executive Session minutes which are attached, of course, are, you know, confidential. But our letter, you know- LUM: - -Just the letter without attachments is what you're talking about. CHAIR: Yeah. Just the letter to me. SCHOEN You know, it's up to you guys. 23