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Page 6 of 11 specific personal thing. I don’t want to know somebody’s personal information. I think what I was looking for, I’m sorry, 13.5. There’s something in this that tends to - RAY Page 30. PRANKE: Page what? RAY: 30. PRANKE: Yes, that’s records, okay, I’m sorry. There was something in here that I think might have been a technical error. In the second sentence it says ‘Where personal matters affecting the privacy of an individual are to be considered’. There’s a difference between personal and personnel and in the executive, in the reasons for going into executive session, 92-5, it says ‘a board may hold a closed meeting to consider and evaluate personal information relating to individuals applying for professional or vocational licenses’. We don’t have too much of that going on and the Police Commission is not doing that. When they say it’s personal, that’s not quite correct. My name is personal but it’s not private. I think that was meant to say personnel but I don’t know that. I think there’s a typo in there that followed through from, probably from the beginning of the Charter. But nowhere in there does it say personal information. Privacy is considered but personal is probably not a good word to use in there. I’m sorry, I go on and on. RAY: Thank you. Okay, Mr. Martin. MARTIN: Yes, I have a question on - PRANKE: Yes sir. MARTIN: Your concern with the Board of Ethics. At present there’s five members and you’d like to see it increased to nine. Is that what I heard you say? PRANKE: I believe so. MARTIN: And - PRANKE: The main reason for that is because they tend to have a problem getting a quorum. If somebody brings a charge before the Board of Ethics, it can take as much as six months for a citizen to go through the entire process with these folks because they have to meet sometimes, depending on who is the person being charged, that person won’t show up for two or three meetings, it can be problem and not having a quorum exacerbates that situation because, as I said, I believe that three out of the six meetings this year so far have been canceled because of lack of quorum. RAY: Any other questions? Okay, thanks Del. As soon as you can get us input in writing, especially the more detailed issues so that if they require legal research, that would be really helpful for us. PRANKE: Certainly. RAY: Okay, thank you. Next, Julie Jacobson. Councilwoman Jacobson. For the folks that just came in, you need to sign up to testify and also Ms. Herkes has joined us and Mr. Alonzo. Good evening. JULIE JACOBSON: file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 6-16-99.html7/1/2011