2009-10-14 Board of Ethics Minutes

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meditated. Again, what are we going to do, put up chicken wire at the council so we don't anyway, that's enough. Thankyou so much. CHAIR: All right. Thank you very much. Yes? FOLENA: During the act of throwing the pen sorry, I did not mention the County budget was being discussed. I was sitting right about in the middle of department heads, because you know what happens during the budget. All the department heads get in there and they want what they want, to be able to run their respective departments correctly. They all need a piece of the pie. And so the point we're making, I'll concise it, is that Mrs. Naeole's failure to write a capital improvements bill before the budget came up, before the bond float came up it made it doubly unexcusable for her to throw the pen and say she thought Kona was getting too much money. Well, she didn't ask for any money for Puna. That's our point. Thank you. CHAIR: Okay, thank you. Mr. Udovic, Ms. Naeole, you guys can come up and respond. SCHOEN: Mr. Chair CHAIR: - -Yes SCHOEN: - -while they're coming up, I believe Ms. Gentry has a disclosure CHAIR: - -Oh, I'm sorry GENTRY: - -Thank you, we forgot to say that SCHOEN: - -which she has made before, but just so the record is clear, she'll make it again. GENTRY: I'll repeat my disclosure that I did work in a temporary position for Ms. Naeole, but that was more than a year ago, and I feel I can sit on this particular petition based on the merits of the case. CHAIR: Any Board members have any problem with that? Petitioners, any problem with that? SMITH: No. FOLENA: It's okay. CHAIR: Okay, thank you. Go ahead. UDOVIC: We have very little to say about this incident. It was an incident which allegedly occurred some sixteen months ago. It was a different council entirely. Different council members were present. Different employees were present at this location. The biggest complaint by the petitioner seems to be that Ms. Naeole didn't 11