2012-07-11 Board of Ethics minutes

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else. And how do you get your position as people on ethics boards? How do you get it? Ex-employees, or people in the community? And how you make your decision? Why you guys no like make decision? You, Glen. Do you know somebody? We’re talking about how you act as a councilman, not how you act at home. How you act and deliver to the public. What we pay you to do. That’s how you make your decision. You guys got no rules on each other. That’s why how would we pick out an argument on the ethics code when there’s nothing to pick out on? We have to make our own list of arguments and complaints about what they do, and what ethic is. And you probably went through the whole year and the whole process of waiting till somebody else make a complaint? You lucky we made a complaint to bring you to this awareness. But you guys better do something about it, sitting up there on these chairs, making us ask you something that’s supposed to have been the other way around, you telling us how good it is. Not us complaining how bad it is. And you meet so much—what, once a month? And you cannot have quorum? You guys just like the council people already. Mr. Dill called up Nu‘uanu Lee, who had signed up to testify on Petition 2012-01. MR. LEE: Good morning, board members. You know, my testimony—when I sit down and give a testimony to a board, I take it very seriously. And I expect people that I respect as making decisions in my life to be there. And when they’re not, then they can’t make no right decisions. And again I look at this board this morning, and I see the same thing. People missing. People not here. Why is this? Why do we have to go through this? Come back and testify again for the same thing. You guys up there making the decisions, we’re letting you know what the problem is. So it’s time, it’s time for you guys and the government people of this island to really take a good look at what you guys doing as far as decision-making going. So just get it together, because the people are tired of this bull and we’re not going to stand for it. Thank you. Mr. Dill called up Ike Payne, who had signed up to testify on Petition 2012-01. MR. PAYNE: Good morning. Aloha, my name is Ike Payne, and when I came here this morning, I wanted to testify on what was going on at council. But after getting here and finding out that the Board of Ethics is doing the exact same thing, I’m angered. I’m very disappointed, because this has been in the paper for over a week. You guys have known the whole entire time and still you guys have chosen not to be here--the ones that aren’t here and the ones that have recused themselves. You know this is an important issue. You know that the rules that govern all of the bodies, whether it’s the county council, whether it’s where you’re sitting right now, there needs to be ethic rules that guide how everybody—how their actions are mandated down to the public. And you guys should be ashamed of yourselves just as much as them, even more so, because you guys are the Board of Ethics. This is shameful. This should not be happening, and I hope that everybody is there in August, because we are coming in force--in force. This will not continue. Thank you. Several more people had signed up to testify. Mr. Dill called up Lori Buchanan, who had signed up to testify on agenda items 5a, 5b, and 5c.