2012-10-10 Board of Ethics minutes

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Angel Pilago and all of his cronies will get theirs when it finally comes to task. Because this is a vindication for my boss, Emily Naeole, who had to take this crap on both sides of the island. And she was a good woman. Well, now you really got something. It ain’t no pencil being thrown across the room. And look around, how many people really care? They’re here, the ones that care. Please don’t waste our time. Get busy and do what you need to do. Thank you. Mr. Dill called up a testifier who had signed up as “Savita,” to testify on all items. SAVITA: Good morning, everyone. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. I’d like to speak on the first one, Communication “a” put out by the OIP. I believe that this was part of the Building Code complaint that was made. What happened when they were passing the Building Code is the clerk, the County Clerk, Jamae Kawauchi, took five agenda items. What was supposed to happen is they were supposed to put, and just clearly describe, each agenda item—number one, number two, what it was about—so that people who come in can speak on each agenda. What she did was she took five communications and put them in one communication, so that number one, the people only had three minutes to speak on what they should have had more time to speak on. And number two, she didn’t describe any of the communications. So like R.J. said, some of the communications were very serious. You could go to jail for a year for putting a solar panel on your house. There were some very important communications that didn’t get discussed. So this is our complaint at the OIP. But unfortunately, there are so many procedures that are in question that our complaint is number 20. And so we have to wait for maybe years for our complaint to be heard. But at least they put this communication on, which is to say we’re having a problem with the agendas. People are playing—well, not people, because it’s the purview of the County Clerk—she’s playing politics with the agenda. And this was back in February. And had the OIP had the staff to deal with our issue back in February, the clerk would have come into the spotlight then, because she’s costing us money at the OIP because she didn’t agendize it correctly, the Building Code. But because they were busy and they can’t deal with our case, and it really didn’t get picked up in the media, and then she went on make a bigger mess with the elections. So that’s all I guess I have to say on the communications, thank you. This second one would be 6a. And I want to say that the alternative press has come a long way. Video cameras, the internet blogs, have helped us move into new territory when it comes to press. Press is no longer the reporter standing in front of the camera that gets played on NBC press. It’s every citizen that has a video camera and an editing system, or every citizen that can write and make a blog. These are the new press of the 21st century. And so our rules and our ideas about this have to change. And the alternative press has to be included in the conversation. And I think one of the reasons they do ignore us is because we really press. See, the traditional press, they’ve stopped pressing, and theirs is very political now. But the alternative press, we press. And they don’t like that. So they don’t—we don’t get invited, and so I think it’s a fabulous—I think this is fabulous this petition has come forth by a journalist in the community who’s considered alternative press, although who’s to say. But I think this is a fabulous petition, and I hope you act on that in an appropriate way. Okay, that’s all I have to say on that. And then on Unfinished Business, number 7a. What I want to say is I watched the video of Dominic Yagong’s performance in front of the ethics committee. I was not surprised because I—again, I’ve been dealing with him for a long time. To me it’s very childish to, when you get in