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like this, State election board can do stuff like that. I don’t think <br />we could really start on something like that. We wouldn’t know <br />where to go. <br /> <br />Mr. Adams: We could issue subpoenas, but there would be no reason for <br />anybody to show up necessarily. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: I don’t think they would. In fact their attorneys would tell them <br />not to. <br /> <br />Ms. Schoen: When the fines ordinance was adopted, the Council mirrored the <br />procedure of issuing fines in the same way they issue, say like <br />Planning’s Notice of Violations. A person is cited, you’re saying <br />you were bad, you’re building in a setback, you have to stop this <br />within ten days, if you don’t then you’re going to be fined. If the <br />person doesn’t do what they’re supposed to then they are fined. <br />That doesn’t really work in this type of setting. <br /> <br />Mr. Adams: That sounds like an administrative procedure. Ours is more going <br />to be a clause and judicial procedure and it probably needs to be. <br /> <br />Ms. Schoen: You are an adjudicatory board. It’s trying to reconcile what the <br />ordinance is asking you to do, but the practical reality is you can’t <br />apply that kind of Planning situation to you guys. You listen to the <br />evidence and you go, that’s a violation and you’re fined. <br /> <br />Mr. Henricks: I don’t think that we would ever get in a fines situation unless we <br />can get into a formal hearing. <br /> <br />Ms. Schoen: You would have to do a formal hearing so that there is the appeal <br />process to the Circuit Court. <br /> <br />Mr. Adams: On the investigatory, there are opportunities for us here. When I <br />first came in, I had this conversation with Renee. It was, are there <br />opportunities for the Board to be involved in education. We have <br />been a receiving Board. People come to us, they have issues and <br />we listen and we provide resolution of one kind or another. I’m <br />not sure where everybody is in terms of the idea of stepping into <br />another area which is the opportunity to be more available on an <br />educational way. As we saw recently, right now education on the <br />Code of Ethics is being done by the individual departments, with <br />the exception of what you’re doing. I’m not sure I have anywhere <br />else to go with that, but… <br /> <br />Mr. Balsis: I have a comment on that. In terms of educating and especially <br />going to the employees of the County of Hawai‘i or even others, <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />