2009-04-08 Board of Ethics Minutes

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4. COMMUNICATIONS o Communication No. 2009 -21: Letter to Dan A. Cole from the Board regarding his petition (No. 2008 -11). LUM: Okay, Communications, the letter to Mr. Cole. This letter has'already been sent out. Do we have any comments on the letter itself. At this point, we can discuss the letter, we can —we do have Mr. Cole here, and at this point this is when I should be able to ask if anybody has any —we could do several —we can accept and file, we could reconsider this actual petition again if you wanted to make a motion to do that. We would not be able to hear it now, we would have to agendize it. Or, we could just advise Mr. —if he —Mr. Cole seems to be still wanting to deal with this part, the Emily Naeole part, so we could advise him to perhaps submit another petition for this. That would be the response we could have to the letter. NICHOLSON: I move that we accept and file the letter and perhaps if we want to discuss something, it would be clarifying with Mr. Cole what we would need in a petition if he chooses to submit another one. GENTRY: Second. LUM: Okay. All in, favor? NICHOLSON, GENTRY, MARTIN (simultaneously): Aye. LUM: Okay. So we'll accept and file, but we would like to tell Mr. Cole the kinds of things we would like to have in order to make a petition workable for us. Is that what you mean, Marilyn? The kinds of things- NICHOLSON: -- Something that we could actually consider and take some action on. LUM: Do you have any suggestions that he might —we do have him here. NICHOLSON: Well, I think that we sort of honed in in the petition he filed on the - -as something we could take action against or at least consider- -was his allegation of Ms. Naeole, her comment he made about him at a public meeting- LUM: - -1 didn't understand whether it was a public meeting- NICHOLSON: - -no, no, it was in a newspaper article- LUM: -- or an actual article. COLE: May 1 answer that? L UM: Yes. on