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Mr. Robinson: Second. <br /> Ms. Kahakalau Any discussion? All in favorr say aye. <br /> Motion and Vote: Mr. Adams moved to take up agenda item eight first. Mr. Robinson <br /> seconded the motion. All members voted aye. <br /> Ms. Kahakalau: We're coming back to number seven. <br /> Mr. Adams: Madame Chair if I may... <br /> Ms. Kahakalau: Yes please. <br /> , Mr. Adams: So in the process of looking at our Rules of Practice and <br /> Procedures...I've had the opportunity to take a look at some of our <br /> other County...you know the City and County of <br /> Honolulu...Kauai County and Maui County...looking at their rules <br /> as well...I must say that Maui County's rules are about as <br /> substantive...f fty pages worth of Rules of Practice and <br /> Procedure...as recently as...I guess Kauai 2013...that's pretty <br /> reasonable but pretty recent...so they go into a great deal of detail <br /> in terms of the...rules that they have particularly of <br /> procedure...but when I take a look at...when I take a look at their <br /> County and I haven't done it in detail but when I have scanned <br /> their County ethics statutes...they have a little bit more detail and <br /> what they do then what we have as a part of ours <br /> interestingly...it's not a carbon copy for example...so when I take <br /> a look at that then that kind of...you know I wanted to see if <br /> there's something that they're doing that would be advantageous <br /> for us to pay attention to and all those kinds of things...so that's <br /> great...I also had the opportunity and decided I wonder if there's <br /> something else out there...somebody else out there that would be <br /> interested and so I was able to pull up the Denver Board of <br /> Ethics...they had amendments thru October of 2016...and so there <br /> was something that was interesting in the Denver Board of Ethics <br /> • that I wanted to kind of get...since we're in discussion here an idea <br /> about...they have the ability for a current, former prospective <br /> officers to submit a written request for a waiver of any provision of <br /> the Code of Ethics...so that they can bring a waiver into the...they <br /> can submit a request that some particular action that they're I guess <br /> proposing to take or in some cases might have already taken that <br /> potentially would be considered a violation of the code that the <br /> Board of Ethics for their city would have the ability to...for good <br /> reason...for good cause...issue.a waiver...I found that <br /> interesting...I need to go back and see whether or not there's <br /> something that's in there statutes...I don't see it our statutes <br /> 21 <br />