2015-05-13 Regular Session Minutes Board of Ethics

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HAWAII COUNTY BOARD OF ETHICS MINUTES—REGULAR SESSION Wednesday, May 13, 2015 9:00 a.m. to 12:48 p.m. 11:40 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. (Lunch Break) Hawai`i County Building Council Chambers 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 Members and Staff Present: Ku Kahakalau, Chair Douglass Adams, Member Kenneth Goodenow, Vice-Chair Gary Murai, Deputy Corporation Counsel J Yoshimoto, Deputy Corporation Counsel Emily V. Hirayama, Secretary 1. CALL TO ORDER Ms. Kahakalau called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. 2. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS (Hilo & Kohala) Ms. Kahakalau: We will be going back and forth from Hilo to Kohala. I would like to remind everybody that we would like to at all possible keep our testimony to three (3) minutes per item on the agenda. 1) Floyd D. Eaglin (Hilo) signed up to testify on agenda item 4b (Gift Disclosures) & 4c,Petition No. 2015-03. Mr. Eaglin: I'm here to support of Mayor Billy Kenoi. I feel that the due process haven't been given him. He said that he did wrong, he said that he paid back. What more we going do? I mean, I feel that the first amendment of the Constitution of America is not to liable people, slander people. His family should've never have been brought into this. Whatever he did as a kid shouldn't be brought into this. It's what he's doing now, he did well for this County. He brought us thru the worst times and I have mixed feelings about all this. I didn't grow up over here. I'm a transplant. I live here now and this is a place for me to come and I came here. So I know him from the time he was a kid. It's not that we friends, we know each other, but he did well for himself He could've always gone the wrong road. He chose the right road. Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes, you make mistakes