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doing his job as a Council member to go there in that sense <br /> in my opinion. <br /> Mr. Adams: So I go back and I take a look at you know we're County <br /> and we're looking at our County information. I find it <br /> useful for me at least to go and take a look at some other <br /> advisory opinions when the language of the statute that's in <br /> HRS and the language of the County Code are exact. And <br /> so I take a look at what the advisory opinion was having to <br /> do with something that was controversial, continues to be <br /> controversial and that has to do with the teachers accepting <br /> trips for educational purposes. The way they went through <br /> that process, the way the State Commission went through <br /> that process was that they took a look at a number of things <br /> that included what is an official action. So I go back to our <br /> County Code, right because what we're...what we're <br /> talking about is okay if this is official legislative business, <br /> official forms of duties then how does that fit into the <br /> definition that's in the Code of official act or official <br /> action. And so official act, official actions in 2-82 is a <br /> decision, recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other <br /> action, including inaction, which involves the use of <br /> discretionary authority. Right. I don't get from there to <br /> accepting an award. I don't and so official authority is the <br /> administrative or legislative powers of decision, <br /> recommendation, approval, disapproval, or other <br /> discretionary action. Look...I'm not against accepting <br /> recognitions, but there not official acts at least according to <br /> Code that I have here. If somebody can show me <br /> something else where it is, by all means I'll get off my high <br /> horse on this one. But because I don't see it in the Code <br /> that we have in front us, therefore it becomes to me a <br /> problem of saying that...I start with the idea that if you're <br /> accepting travel from other than County sources, right, <br /> other than government sources meaning non-profits or <br /> corporate. That becomes a gift under the way that we have <br /> looked at gifts in the Code in 91-4. So then what are the <br /> exceptions, exceptions are...is there a in this particular case <br /> is there an official performance of official action. Official <br /> action is defined here. I can't change it. <br /> Mr. Goodenow: Official action in Section 2-91... <br /> Mr. Adams: No. It's in 2-82. Definitions. <br /> 16 <br />