2013-01-09 Board of Ethics minutes

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MR. COMMAND: No, I think that there's some sort of dimensional requirement-- MR. BALSIS: - -We need to keep MR. HENRICKS: -- that this morning. I've already decided, and I made my statement, we're not going to the charge of the dollar. That's not the issue at all. It's the treatment-- MR. BALSIS: --It's the treatment between Bobby and Jerome. MR. HENRICKS: It's between the two of them. We're not getting involved with the charge. This body doesn't have an issue as far as the charge is concerned. We're only taking it into the treatment between people, if it's unfair treatment. Not the charge. Okay, he specifically said that you were giving him the runaround. MR. COMMAND: I think that I'm not giving him the answer that he wants to hear, which is some sort of policy decision on the baggage. I've tried very hard to help him. I've tried to steer him to the Transportation Committee. I also referred him to the Mass Transit Agency. And like he said, we've known each other for a long time. I've nothing against him. And like he said, if not calling him back on that particular day was a problem, I apologize for that. MR. HENRICKS: Do you accept his apology, or do you want to go forward? MR. WARREN: I do not accept the apology. And I made a very long story very short and brief, but this a continuing it's almost a culture that I was subjected to. I call it the kick the can down the road-- MR. HENRICKS: Any time that Mr.-- MR. COMMAND: Command? MR. HENRICKS: No. MR. WARREN: Warren. MR. HENRICKS: Mr. Warren. At any time that Mr. Warren contacted you or made inquiries, did you ever at any time, in your decision, write something to him in writing, stating your position and the department's position? MR. COMMAND: In writing, no. MR. HENRICKS: Why not? MR. COMMAND: Basically because all our conversations, except for a very few instances, have all been over the phone. He's never asked for anything in writing.