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MR. HISASHIMA: Outside the division, you mean another department? <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: I’d go up to the department level and outside of my division. <br /> <br />MR. HISASHIMA: In this case here, the two young ladies, who did the investigation? <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: Well, the point is, we—well, if you want, very honestly, the investigation—I’m a little confused as to the term investigation. What we do is once again review the properties annually to see if they’re touching their own property. And we review the models that are assigned to us. As far as investigating anything, we did not feel that there was anything to investigate. <br /> <br />MR. HISASHIMA: What I’m trying to clarify is on this August 13, 2013, policy, conflict of interest policy--under section 4 it says further investigations, if warranted. Who does that investigation, and on what grounds do they do the investigation? On a violation of a policy or on a code of conduct—the ethics? <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: Oh, the violation of the ethics and/or—on either one. Anything that would be serious, we would take it upstairs and outside of our division. <br /> <br />MR. HISASHIMA: So you folks are doing two then, for the—we call it administrative investigation and also on the ethics— <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: First see if there’s something there. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Nancy, did you have something? <br /> <br />MS. CRAWFORD: Well, I was just going to speak because I felt like this is a departmental—although it relates specifically to the Real Property Tax Division in this case, this policy is a department policy. And if an investigation is warranted, yes, it would be from out of my office. We would assign someone to do the investigation. However, in terms of the policy as written—I’m sorry, I was going to – in terms of the policy—but I think that our, under the general provisions of our policy, and I’m sorry if this is more than you wanted to know, but we talked about the employees may not assess, appraise, change records, or take any other official actions on individual properties in which they or a relative has a financial interest. And that’s—I guess that’s the point of our policy. Our concern is someone impacting their individual properties, and so that’s the—if we had a reason to feel that had been violated, that would trigger an investigation, if there was a complaint to that effect. <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: So under this general provision 3(a) that you were referring to, you’re talking specifically to the individual properties and you’re seeing that as the issue. That’s how the department sees it?