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difficult and unwieldy. It’s better to have one Code of Ethics that governs everyone, so just, you <br />know, providing some of the thought that I had in terms of when we were making amendments, <br />and some of the thoughts I had when I both served on the Board and as well as being a <br />Department Head. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: One question. Do you have a copy of the Ethics Code in front of you <br />anywhere? <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: No I don’t. I have an excerpt from a particular provision. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: Now I want to ask you a question. It’s a legal question, I think you can <br />help me out with. <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: Okay. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: Since you have the most experience of anybody in the room with this <br />particular document, on 2-91, it’s the page I had it open to, it states in 2-91, appointing authority, <br />and it says in addition to the other parts, an appointing authority may have to discipline. Okay, <br />my problem now, I went through this whole Code and I could never find out what appointing <br />authority meant. <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: I would read in its normal sense and say that that would refer to the <br />employers or… <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: That’s the only way you can read it right? <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: Yeah. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: It’s a bad word, isn’t it. It’s a very… <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: Well that’s something that you may want to clarify because…. <br /> <br />Mr. Adams: It’s not in the definitions. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: There’s no definition at all and it’s a bad usage because it’s very <br />ambiguous to what it means. So I’m going to take it, from what you said, I’m going to take that <br />means employer, alright. Is that right? <br /> <br />Ms. Leithead-Todd: Well that’s normally I what I would say that appointing authority is the <br />person that employed or appointed or hired. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: Because the ambiguity you have is employers, employees that are <br />appointed and employees that are Civil Service. You see, so when you use the word appointing <br />authority, there’s ambiguity there. See what I mean? And people like appointed authorities, like <br />the Mayor is an appointed authority. Now, is anybody else an appointed authority, you see what <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />