2008-06-25 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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LUM: - -right here or whatever that is 64 point type right here. He's not asking us whether we like it or not or whether we think its great graphics or you know those —he's not asking those type of questions. He's asking if it violates the code of ethics. I think some people will look at a picture and think campaigning right here or else that he's selling real estate. Other people will think oh is that who he is, oh I see him down at the market. So there's- JACOBSON: - -I'll say in part that mostly this is —I don't send very many letters to constituents this is not a —I mean I- LUM: - -It's mostly- JACOBSON: - -I never mass mail to constituents. Well I did when I did a survey of Punalu'u. That was the last time I did a mass mailer. Generally, If I do mass mailers that's on my own dime. But this would be —most of my correspondence and there's quite a bit, goes to senators, representatives, the Governor, our federal senators and representatives and their staff, interdepartmental, another councilmember, to the mayor, to public works, most of my correspondence goes that way, to National Association of Counties. In part it's so people can kind of remember who I am because I have a lot of contacts with a lot of people and my own memory with names is very poor, especially for a politician and it's the —I guess in part because my own memory is —I have to have these clues and if I can get a picture in front of me with somebody, but I don't think this is much for campaigning and as far as that letterhead except for the photograph is pretty much what everybody has used Like at the bottom of mine it's a little bit different. I think it says I have the- LUM: -- district six, upper Puna- JACOBSON: - -and it also says something to the fact that this is a nondiscriminatory County. LUM: Equal opportunity provider and employer. Hawai `i County is an equal opportunity provider and employer. JACOBSON: The Mayor has asked us to put that on all the bottom of the things. Now where I put Ka'u- LUM: - -Ka'u and South Kona and Upper Puna- JACOBSON: - -Kona coast and all that. So other people have something else, but it basically goes through the Clerk to see if she has any problems with it and mostly we have our own —it's more or less the same format. LUM: I did ask to check the Clerk if they had any problem with it. SCHOEN: I did speak with Casey Jarman, our County Clerk. She basically said what Councilmember Jacobson has represented, that the clerk's office provides the ink and the paper and each councilmember is responsible for printing out their own letterhead. LUM: And designing and— Z