2008-06-25 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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SCHOEN: I have something, John. Just real quickly. As you folks were looking at the financial disclosures, I thought, well, is there a better way for us to do this and maybe we can kind of look at the completeness or not completeness of the disclosures, but actually our rules say that the Board looks at whether or not they are complete and accurate. But in doing that, I did read the section on confidential disclosures and 1 noticed in our Rule 8.5 it says that administrative heads file their disclosure statements with the County Clerk, and 1 think in our earlier petition regarding Mr. Takaba and Mr. Takai you, Ms. Lum, had made specific mention that you wanted the order to say that the disclosure was filed with the County Clerk. So I just wanted to bring that up. LUM: No, they were not —they weren't supposed to be filed with the Are his filed with the County Clerk? his- CHAIR: Yeah, that's what she said SCHOEN: They are per the rule. LUM: Because he's the head? CHAIR: Yeah. LUM: Oh. Okay. SCHOEN: I don't know if that information makes a difference to the Board's- LUM: Well, but we shouldn't put it in that it was there —but we had the copies of it in SCHOEN: Right, he provided the copies but— CHAIR: They come to us too, right? SCHOEN: No. LUM: No, we don't see those. SCHOEN: They don't come to this Board, but I don't —with that disclosure, I don't believe that that information - -that it needs to be disclosed to the Clerk - -would change this Board's decision with respect to that petition. LUM: No, it wouldn't, but the fact he provided copies of it - -so when she in her letter said that it wasn't on file- SCHOEN: Okay. Well, 1 just wanted to make that question- LUM: Yeah, then 1 don't think we should even mention it in there. Just let the decision go the way without the information that it was filed because you know, I was looking at his copies and they look just like ours. 32