2012-07-11 Board of Ethics minutes

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MR. DILL: Okay, “a” as well? MR. OAMILDA: Yeah. MR. DILL: Okay. MR. OAMILDA: You know, I come from Ka‘ū. I drive all the way from Ka‘ū every— excuse me, I’m Gary Oamilda, and I’m glad to be testifying here. I come from Ka‘ū, and I come to testify on matters, or listen to testimony on matters, that I deem important. And work ethics says that if I’m holding a job, I do the job the best I can. In this instance, it’s listening to testimony. If you guys on that side, and I’m on this side, I think it’s just common respect that you give me your full attention when I’m up here. And to have these people here, or not being here, is like kind of great—it’s like you guys have part-time jobs. I mean not you guys, but these people have a part-time job, basically four days out of the month, and they cannot give full attention to those days. I agree with some of the people that testified before about you know your schedule. Pay attention to it. It’s just common courtesy, I think. And then it’s appalling that they will not be here. And sure, the aides say well, they’re upstairs listening. Well, come on, man. Let’s have some eye- to-eye contact. Let me know that you’re actually hearing my words and reacting to what I’m feeling. If there are no rules, this committee should certainly consider putting rules in place, or the council themselves should consider policing themselves so as not to give the appearance of this—this ineptness, or whatever you want to call it, this underhanded. Thank you. Mr. Dill called up Palikapu Dedman, who had signed up to testify on Petition 2012-01. MR. DEDMAN: Gee, the incompetence of our complaints. It seems like the same with you folks, in your ethics. How often do you meet, and then you can’t have quorum? It shows the inconsistency of this government and yourselves, too. In the complaint we was trying to complain about was the fact that there is nothing to complain about that guides council people. They got no guidelines. It’s all about employees in ethics. And I don’t know how often you folks look at that or pay attention to anything like that, but sitting up there and recusing yourselves—from what? It’s not about the character. It’s about how he acts or the ethics and what he’s supposed to be carrying out his duties. It’s not about his projects in his community. We’re not here to complain about that. We complain about how he talks about other communities that he’s responsible for. He’s not just responsible for Keaukaha. He’s speaking for the whole island. So they all should show up and speak up for the whole island, not just their districts and their pet projects, and everybody’s happy in their district, while everybody else on the other side, out of their districts, don’t get their so-called respect. When I looked and said that there is nothing that guidelines these council people, do they get excused? What consists of an excuse? A doctor’s slip? That’s what happens when I work. I’m excused, I need a doctor’s slip. I don’t need to just say something to the rest of my councilmen, that I got a basketball game, or I got a baseball game, or I got some baby party I got to go to. That’s what you use an excuse to miss out on saying and making decisions that affects people’s lives, for the rest of their lives they live here? People come up here and give testimony about how they going live, and their life, and how serious that is. And you got people up here with their arrogance, miss four hundred something votes, 30% of their time spent someplace