2011-02-09 Board of Ethics Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY BOARD OF ETHICS MINUTES — REGULAR SESSION1 Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:00 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. 25 Aupuni Street (County Council Chambers) Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Members and staff present: John E. K. Dill, Chair David Heaukulani, Vice Chair Bernard Balsis, Jr., Member Renee N. C. Schoen, Deputy Corporation Counsel Mary E. Crosson, Secretary 1. CALL TO ORDER Mr. Dill called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m. 2. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS Dan A. Cole had signed up to testify on several agenda items. DILL: Good morning, Mr. Cole. You're going to be providing testimony on petitions numbered 2011 -01, -02, -04, -05, -06, and 2010 -01. Okay. COLE: Good morning, Board. BALSIS: Morning. COLE: First of all, to open I'd like to point out that apparently I was never supposed to be here. These petitions apparently were going to be sealed. I wish to call the attention to this Board and read into record the email I got from Mike Alio [sic]. That's spelled A- I-E-L-L-O, who's the editor of the Hawai `i News Daily. com in California. Subject, re news tip dash 27 January 2 -11 [sic]. Ethics complaint filed against Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney Jay Kimura. Mike Alio [sic] writes back, Hi, Dan. I spoke with Mary Crosson. She is going to pass my request to the attorney for the Board of Ethics. She did indicate that the petitions were probably going to be sealed. It appears that the exposure of this ethics meeting in the media has prompted this, as the local media has had nothing in it. Our esteemed reporter Nancy back here, had a four- column wide article six and a half inches high on the top of the backpage of the Hawai `i Tribune - Herald about apparently an individual where his name is pronounced two weeks after he testified. Yet there's nothing about this. Getting onto it, I will read into the record my 1 Minutes in italics are verbatim. Blanks indicate inaudible or indecipherable speech.