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MR. BALSIS: --I think it’s better we take no action at this time— <br /> <br /> MS. SCHOEN: --Take no action at this time, and then if he wants to resubmit the same thing next time he can do that, or submit a new one? What do you guys think? <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: Based on what he finds out, you can resubmit based on what you find out from your people. <br /> <br /> MS. SCHOEN: I mean the grievance process I think is going to be longer than a month. It’ll take its course, and I think it’ll be several months. When you go through that grievance process then you have a right to appeal—I mean, you have a hearing, right to appeal, and all of that, so you know – <br /> <br /> MR. ADAMS: One of the concerns I have—I’m not disagreeing, but one of the concerns I have is he’s provided—he’s petitioned us for an opinion. So then either he withdraws or we take no action, with the idea that he may come back. Is there a point in time, if things go badly, where he no longer can come forward? Say he’s no longer employed. Does that prevent him from coming forward? <br /> <br /> MR. BALSIS: In my mind, and please correct me if I’m wrong, that does not prevent him from coming forward. However, the petition would have to be direct as to a violation of the Code or a misinterpretation of the Code by an existing employee, which would be his supervisors all the way up the line. But he would have to be specific in naming them. <br /> <br /> MR. ADAMS: So he doesn’t lose his right to come back, regardless. <br /> <br /> MS. SCHOEN: No, because any member—anybody, the public, otherwise—can bring a petition before the Board, whether or not he’s an employee or not. <br /> <br /> MR. ADAMS: So just because we’re not taking action today doesn’t mean that you’re not able to come back at some future time. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: I would like to withdraw it at this time so it’s just dead, and then I can resubmit a fresh and I think cleaner, with my understanding now, cleaner petition in a month or—some time in the future. I think that would— <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: --When you resubmit anything, try to get it in writing what they say. Anything in writing is record for us. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: Yes. <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: Otherwise, what if--what we’re seeing here is just what we’re seeing. Nothing is under oath.