2012-07-11 Board of Ethics minutes

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that would be three--to make any action valid. Since you have two members that have recused themselves, you’ll only have three. MS. NAPEAHI: So I only have three left. MS. SCHOEN: Yes. MS. NAPEAHI: The other two? MS. SCHOEN: One is out of the country, and one is ill. MS. NAPEAHI: But you’re mandated to have these hearings scheduled? So you could have told us that this wasn’t going to be a hearing where I could be able to give some pertinent information to the council, to your commission? MS. SCHOEN: Okay, right now the matter is set for initial hearing. And so what I think the Board chair has said is they’re going to take whatever testimony that you want to provide today. But the Board cannot take any action on it because you don’t have the requisite number. So you can provide testimony today on your petition and not come back next time, or you could come back again next time if you want. It’s entirely up to you. But this is an initial review. So at the initial review, what the Board does is it looks at the petition to determine whether or not it should proceed, whether it should schedule an informal hearing, a formal hearing, or whether or not the petition should be dismissed. MS. NAPEAHI: I had this request to be here, a letter, almost two weeks ago. And if you had known that you weren’t able to make a decision today— MS. SCHOEN: --We didn’t know until today. MS. NAPEAHI: That you weren’t going to have— MS. SCHOEN: --Yes, yes. MR. DILL: We’re not allowed to speak of board business outside of official realm. They recused themselves today. That’s why counsel mentioned, what we do when we get petitions is the first thing we do is have an initial review of it to identify if there’s any conflicts and then to see which course of action we’re going to take--if we have quorum to move forward. I can tell you as a remaining ruling board member on this board regarding your petition that hasn’t recused himself, also as the sitting chairman of this board, it is my intention to get this petition followed through thoroughly and not to avoid it and not to come up with excuses to not hear it. Now I need certain systems to be in place and people to be here in order for me to make it official, and a board decision and not just a chair motion. So you have my assurance that I’m not here to try and ditch anything, okay. We do have a system in place and rules we have to follow, and I don’t want you to interpret this in any way as belittling your petition or not taking it seriously. MS. NAPEAHI: Can I ask Glen why he recused?