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5. COMMUNICATIONS <br />a. Communication No. 2008 -43: Anonymous letter to the Board dated 3128108 <br />regarding false claiming of mileage reimbursement. <br />CHAIR: Have you guys all had the opportunity to take a look at that? <br />LUM: Yes, and since it's an anonymous letter, I don't think that we can do very much <br />with that. For the members of the public, it involved somebody questioning free meal or hotel <br />accommodations, or our mileage for people serving on boards and commissions. My feeling is <br />that the person really didn't receive correct information and that our —we do receive mileage for <br />our car, I mean it's nor for our body it's for our car, and on the mileage statement it says I <br />certify that I use my car on County business so I think that that's very clear and I know on this <br />board when we do run over and we do have lunch its very definitely a part of the situation. So I <br />think that the person who didn't want to sign their name still had incorrect information and that <br />we're all —it really is handled and I don't think we need to do anything further. So I move that <br />we accept and file. <br />NICHOLSON: I'll second. <br />LUM: Or did we already do that? <br />CHAIR and NICHOLSON (simultaneously): No, we didn't. <br />CHAIR: Any other comments? Renee, do you have anything? <br />SCHOEN: No. <br />CHAIR: One thing that concerns me is the impression of mileage that they refer to— <br />reimbursable to compensate claimant for use of personal vehicle. What worries me is why they <br />are confused in the first place. But 1 guess it's just based on speculation like you were saying, <br />Ann. <br />LUM: When they said they believed that you could carpool and claim reimbursement <br />CHAIR: --yeah obviously somebody is telling- <br />NICHOLSON: That's incorrect, you can't. <br />CHAIR: But my concern is why wasn't it made clear in the beginning to that person. <br />LUM: My feeling is that somebody said oh wow, you should join this board because hey, <br />you get your mileage paid. Somebody from an official point of view or the —Corp, it's the <br />counsel office right that handles these applications? Obviously, if it had been an official <br />knowledgeable person they would have said no, no, no, only the car driven over gets the thing. I <br />looked on —do you have a mileage statement? Department names, so on and so forth, County of <br />