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retroactive, that upon the disclosure or appointment to a board, the name of the individual and all previous appointments, commissions, or settings be disclosed at that time. In fact, on this Board here, I would be interested to see how individuals are selected. I have never seen in the paper a notice of advertisement for individuals interested in becoming board members of the Board of Ethics. I myself believe that I would make a very good member of this Board. I have extensive experience in this Board. I have extensive experience in the public. How do I get my name placed for consideration? Going on to item 5, I speak in opposition to the approval of the draft adopting the dismissal of my petition. As you are all aware, I filed a multi-page testimony prior to the January 9th meeting. In this testimony, it is documented in the stated certificates, stipulations of issuance of contracts, of bonds, of BANS, stipulations of requirements of deposits in accounting. One hour before the January 9th meeting of the Ethics Board, Nancy Crawford dropped a letter off in the Corporation Counsel Office in response. I had no opportunity to review the letter and was flagrantly denied the opportunity to make comment before this commission, as recorded on video by the Occupy Hawai‘i movement and the Occupy Hilo movement, in addition to the official minutes. The mayor and the finance director offered no response, as this Board admits, to the petition. The petition is very simple. The letter from this Board to the mayor was extremely simple. The basic requirement was asked: what benefit did the people of Hawai‘i get for their $66,000? All government officials have two parts to their official actions. Part one, they have a requirement of authority to act in the people’s behalf. Part two, they have a requirement or reason to act in the people’s behalf, as an example of a police officer. As an example of a police officer, he is given the legal authority to stop and detain a person if that officer is in jurisdiction, and if and only if the officer has probable cause, as guaranteed to all persons under the state and federal constitutions. My petition was brought forth because numerous times I had attempted to secure the reason or requirement for which the mayor of the County of Hawai‘i, Billy Kenoi, caused the sale to the Bank of Hawai‘i for a government capital improvement bond, Series B, to finance a capital improvement project. I merely am asking what capital improvement project required Mayor Kenoi to cause this sale of $10 million of County bond anticipation notes to fund? How simple of a question is that? Was it to fund a pool? A Paradise Park park? What was it to fund? By designating the cause and requirement of which that bond was issued answers and legitimizes the mayor’s actions. This has never been done. And even today, this Board cannot say what project the bond was sold for. However, you’ve gone forth under the smoke screen of oh, he may have had the authority. He has the authority to issue bonds and sell them if the authority is granted by the Hawai‘i County Council. Did the mayor have the authority, or jurisdiction in this case, to sell a bond for which project? The identity of the project will determine the legitimacy of the authorization, and then it must be asked, why was the monies placed into the General Fund accounting of the County of Hawai‘i and not placed into a project fund, as required by and stipulated by the state and federal filings of the Hawai‘i County director, which states, as you all know from reading my document, that all funds from the new issue of bonds, Series B, shall be placed into a, quote, project fund, end quote, of which monies will be used to fund the capital improvement projects to include all interest of issues. I again ask, what project fund should the issuance of the Series B bond anticipation notes have been placed in? Again, nobody tells. So I leave you with the understanding that I have in fact filed with the governor of the state of Hawai‘i a
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