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MR. DILL: Do you mind coming up and introducing yourself, sir? <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: Stan Sitko, Real Property Tax Administrator. <br /> <br />MR. DILL: Are you here as well for that? Go ahead. (Kyle Chang got up to sit by Mr. <br />Sitko.) <br /> <br />MR. DILL: Just to clarify for the board and everyone here, this is an initial review of this <br />petition to see if we will move forward in hearing this. I don’t believe the petitioner is <br />here or plans to attend, right, Mary? <br /> <br />SECRETARY: Right, he sent a letter that he couldn’t be here. It’s in your packet. <br /> <br />MR. DILL: All right, so if you haven’t already, if you would just take a look at the <br />petition, and we can discuss what this board would like to do. One thing I’d like to point <br />out is that typically, gentlemen, when we have petitions it’s against—filed against a <br />County employee or officer, a person. In this case it seems as if he’s filing the petition <br />against the whole division, so I’m not sure how that works. Do we have any precedent of <br />that, Renee, or anything like that? <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: In answer to your question, Mr. Chair, the Hawai‘i County Code of <br />Ethics in--Section 2-81 is the applicability section, and it says the article shall apply to <br />every officer or employee of the County, so it makes no mention about a particular—the <br />Code being applicable to a department. <br /> <br />MR. DILL: That’s 2-81, you said? <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: Yes. While you guys are looking at the petition, I wanted to inform the <br />board that I did speak to the petitioner yesterday and wanted to inquire as to whether or <br />not he was going to be here. He couldn’t make it, he had a doctor’s appointment, but he <br />did want me to relay that— <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: --Can you speak up for me? <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: I’m sorry. <br /> <br />SECRETARY: It doesn’t amplify, that’s just a recording mic. <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: I’ll talk louder. He told me that he tried to set out the facts of the petition <br />as best he could by the documents provided. He did say that he felt he was treated <br />unfairly by the department, because they did not respond to his request for documents. <br />He did appear at the Tax Review Board, and upon review of his case, they denied his <br />appeal. And then the petitioner informed me that he did not elect to appeal to the Tax <br />Court. Other than that, he just elaborated that he felt he was treated unfairly by the <br />division and that he did not have enough information when he appeared at the Tax <br />Review Board. So I did inform him that the board’s duty today was to review the petition <br />and decide whether or not it would dismiss it, require further information, set the matter <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />