2010-09-08 Board of Ethics Minutes

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IRU�I� CHAIR: I'm sorry, yes? HENRICKS: Perfectly. BAGMAN: I was just going to add, you know, oversight of a discrepancy, intentional or not, can happen at any level. And that's why we have a number of levels reviewing the invoices. But to avoid any potential allegations or anything, that one duty could be reassigned. CHAIR: Okay. Well if that's the case, I'm and if you can verify that can be done, that makes me feel better. HENRICKS: Yeah, what I think it would translate, we don't want her looking over her own accounts. It just doesn 't feel good. I mean, she may be the most honest person in the world, but it just doesn't feel good when you're doing that, because it's like it looks too bad for the public, saying what are you doing looking at your own company, you got your stuff coming in here and you're the one that's passing it through. And it just doesn't feel good. LGM: Okay, I'd like to move are we ready? I'd like to move that we find no conflict in Ms. Espin taking the part -time job with the security company, with the ESPIN: - -I mean, if anybody else has a part -time job out there that they want to give me, I'll take it, you know, darn right, you know. LGM: Bless you for being able to have two jobs. ESPIN: I groom dogs, I'll do whatever, you know. I couldn't even get a job swabbing up the kennels at Barking Kennels, so this was all I could get. LGM: It's good, it's good. It's all good. But anyway, in this finding no conflict, we would recommend that that account be assigned to another clerk, just to avoid anybody saying oh, what are you doing CHAIR: Okay. LGM: And if we could have just a verification of that. And we thank you for CHAIR: - -Yes, thank you for taking the time LGM: - -Thank you for thinking broadly and thinking ethically. ESPIN: I honestly can't believe it's an issue, personally. I will say it was asked of me by other people, so I raised the question. But my thought was, how can it be? How can the County say I can't do a second job? 13