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MR. HANSON: To summarize. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Yes, please. <br /> <br />MR. HANSON: So I am gainfully employed by the County with the Hawai‘i County Civil Defense Agency as administrative officer. As I am there attending to my duties, I also have for the large part of my adult life done volunteer work or work trying to help others, regardless of my employment. With that, I see that there’s an opportunity for volunteering in helping in the Big Island Amateur Radio Club as their president. The Big Island Amateur Radio Club is a 501(c)(7). I don’t get paid for that position. However, I can see that there is potential for questions, me being part of Civil Defense and Amateur Radio being what they do out there. They are a hobby, a club, and they are comprised of hobbyists as well as people that understand that during an emergency, they may be requested, or they may want to help out during an emergency. In the same light, Civil Defense also sees that there is an opportunity and there’s also a potential for volunteers out there to help us to get the message out to the public and also back over to Civil Defense. So does that have anything to do with one versus the other? Where I can see there’s a potential—I’m not getting paid, again, for that position over there with BIARC, but I just want to make sure that I understand if there are ethics involved with being a volunteer president of a club that could potentially serve to help the County during an emergency of some sort—that I’m not in conflict with anything. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Any questions? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Yeah, I just have one area that I want to go to, and then I’m all right with it. As an employee of the County, would you be ever involved with any funding with this group that you’re with, the Radio Club? Is any funding going on there? <br /> <br />MR. HANSON: They do have funds in their coffers. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Is it due to the County? <br /> <br />MR. HANSON: It doesn’t come from the County. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Okay, so you’re never involved with making a decision as to funding, is that correct? <br /> <br />MR. HANSON: Sir, there possibly could be. And that is, if by chance during the communication phase we say that yes, we would like to—the County would like to provide some equipment to BIARC to help support the emergency response of the County, then there could be some— <br />