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GENTRY: You were exercising yeah, you were praying for yourself. <br />NAEOLE: I have to, but my hand was out. <br />GENTRY: Okay. That's all I have. <br />CHAIR: Okay. Anybody want to entertain a motion, or anything of that nature for <br />discussion? Okay. Why don't we take a five- minute break. You can use the restroom, <br />freshen up, and then the Board will reconvene and deliberate on this issue, and hopefully <br />we can come to some sort of formal opinion on this. So five minutes <br />UM -- Informal opinion. <br />CHAIR: Informal opinion. <br />NICHOLSON: Informal. <br />(The Board recessed from 11:18 a.m. to 11:26 a.m.) <br />CHAIR: Okay, why don't we call this meeting back in session. Okay, just to recap this <br />informal hearing, we've heardfrom both sides regarding Petition 2009 -6 Does the <br />Board have any discussion between itself, any questions for petitioners or responders? <br />NICHOLSON: I would just like to —since I haven't said anything, I would like to at least <br />state how I feel about this. And I feel that the if I were the one sitting in that chair or <br />listening to this, I think I would find the behavior somewhat inappropriate and maybe <br />somewhat offensive, but do I think it raises to a real ethical violation? And I would <br />probably say no. I think that there is definitely some inappropriateness here, but again, <br />I'm applying my own my own standards, and we all tend to do that. But is there a real <br />ethical violation here? And I guess I'm not seeing that the strength of a real ethical <br />issue. <br />CHAIR: Okay. I agree. <br />GENTRY: I would tend to agree with Board member Nicholson, and that's the reason <br />why I asked Councilmember Naeole, to come up and ask well, what were you thinking? <br />Were you really praying for the petitioner? And the answer was no. There's so much <br />about public perception, especially in the area of ethics, that it can be misconstrued. In <br />the public purview, so many things, even if you scratch your nose that could be <br />misconstrued as I'm scratching my nose at somebody particular. And that does not seem <br />to be the intention here, at least not from the reading of it. But I can understand where <br />so much of what we do —even sitting here, whether we smile or not, frown or not, can be <br />discourteous to someone. And that was never our intention to do. But as a public officer <br />or elected official, we could try to mind our p's and q's a little bit better, too. That's it. <br />22 <br />