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NICHOLSON: -- because they do represent us. <br />CHAIR: Okay, I think I can go along with that. <br />LUM: So what have we got here? <br />NICHOLSON: That we find that using a photograph on letterhead or business cards — <br />are we going to include the business cards in this one? <br />LUM: Yeah, let's get that out of the way. <br />CHAIR: I'd rather not. <br />LUM: Oh okay, strike that. <br />CHAIR: One quick question again, you said that with this day and age there's minimal <br />additional costs, are there any recognizable additional costs that you found other than ink? <br />JACOBSON: I haven't been able to —I mean, the price of ink when you're printing <br />letters with a laser printer - -it becomes inconsequential because I'm already printing, the <br />letterhead is in blue usually. I use blue just to differentiate, just so you can see that it is an <br />original. <br />LUM: Using his photo on letterhead, for what did we say? <br />NICHOLSON: Correspondence relating to council business. <br />LUM: We find no violation to the code of ethics in Mr. Jacobson using his photo on his <br />letterhead, his County letterhead. <br />SCHOEN: Mr. Chair, if I may, I think the balance that the Board is looking for is really <br />between the informal advisory opinion that this board issued a few months ago regarding use of <br />photographs and the prohibition of mail -outs within six months of election, which the County just <br />passed an Ordinance on. I think that your motion might be tailored recognizing both the <br />ordinance and the decision. So you may want to say that use of a photograph on County <br />letterhead is not a violation of the Hawai `i County code of ethics as long as the letter is not used <br />as a mail -out as prohibited in the ordinance itself, or as an advertisement as recognized in the <br />informal advisory opinion. I think that's what you folks are looking for in trying to balance. <br />CHAIR: Yes, absolutely. You got all that? <br />LUM: Yes, we are. No 1 didn't get all that. 1 move that we find- <br />NICHOLSON: - -We also, though, want to address the issue of whether it's just <br />letterhead or whether it also is business cards. If we want to include that in this issue, or <br />because the petition was just for the letterhead, we stick with the letterhead. <br />LUM: Stick with the letterhead. <br />14 <br />