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impediments to her running for County Council while continuing to serve as <br /> Deputy County Clerk. <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Balsis: Maile David, please step forward, have a seat. I’m going to give you the <br />floor for a few minutes to make your request. <br /> <br />Ms. David: Thank you. Good morning and Aloha Board Members. My name is <br />Maile David. I am the Deputy County Clerk for the County of Hawai‘i. Mahalo for this <br />opportunity. I have with me this morning, County Clerk Stewart Maeda and I also have with us <br />our Elections Administrator Patricia Nakamoto available to answer any questions. I believe my <br />letter explains the potential predicament that we are facing. I decided to approach the Board and <br />get an opinion ahead of time whether there would be any perceived conflict in my running for <br />office and maintaining my position and duties as Deputy County Clerk. We did discuss this <br />matter with Corporation Counsel here, Lincoln Ashida. We had discussions also with the State <br />Office of Elections and basically were advised that Mr. Maeda was given the, delegated the <br />authority to make any concessions or shielding methods to prevent any such appearance of <br />perceived conflict in what I would like to do. And I believe my letter is self explanatory. Mr. <br />Maeda is here to describe the shielding methods that we have implemented and we’ve already <br />begun to implement some of those methods by pending this hearing. We have, I have stepped <br />away from my duty as clerking the West Hawai‘i Civic Center Council meetings and Mr. Maeda <br />has graciously accepted that duty pending the outcome of this meeting, or this Board’s decision. <br /> <br />Mr. Balsis: Mr. Maeda, if I may ask, could you please specify the shields that you <br />have raised. <br /> <br />Mr. Maeda: Good morning. My name is Steward Maeda, County Clerk. Basically on <br />election day I would be at the control center of our elections and in case I was not able to be <br />there, the Deputy County Clerk would then take my place. Instead we’re using one of our <br />employees from our Legislative Research Branch to step in, in case I’m not available on that day. <br />Primarily at the control center, the Clerk would be there to address any issues that came up, to <br />assist in anyway, any kind of media inquiries and things of that nature. <br /> <br />Mr. Balsis: Does anybody here on the Board have any questions for the petitioner? <br /> <br />Mr. Adams: I do. As I take a look at your comprehensive letter with all the <br />attachments, which Code section are we specifically addressing within the Code of Ethics? <br /> <br />Ms. David: I read the Code of Ethics sections and I could not find a specific section <br />that addresses my concerns. The reason I’m here basically is the information that I got indirectly <br />that if I intended to run there may be a problem with ethics, so I looked at the Code of Ethics, I <br />could not find a specific rule so I’m here before you to see. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: You may be able to put down there Section 2-83(b). It says, no officer or <br />employee shall use or attempt to use the officer’s or employee’s official position to secure or <br />grant unwarranted privileges, and so on and so forth. So that’s what you’d be doing if you were <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />