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minutes 05-31-00Page 20 of 54 <br />HERKES: I think I just read it. Now I’m going to have to move how to do this. <br />HIGASHI: So you want it as an addition to this? <br />HERKES: Yes. I move that we insert the language I just read as an addition to Section 14-1. You’ve got a problem with that? <br />BESS: I have one more comment, one more comment. <br />RAY: Wait a minute. Can I have a second on that? <br />BESS: Yes, I’m sorry. <br />RAY: We have a second on Marni’s? <br />SANTANGELO: I’ll second for discussion. <br />BESS: I’m just wondering whether or not the use of the word ‘justifiably’ may color the intent of this. ‘To the end that the <br />public may have trust and confidence in the integrity of the government’ is certainly much more straight forward. <br />‘Justifiably’ puts in a weasel word in there that people may want to play games with. So I don’t think that ‘justifiably’ ought <br />to be used. <br />IRVINE: The other thing, this is a separate Section. It’s not enactment. It may come under Section 14-2, Standards. <br />HERKES: Or we can put it under a separate section that says ‘Declaration of Policy’, which is what Maui did under their <br />Code of Ethics, and change all the Sections. <br />What I was trying to not do is to change all the Section numbers. <br />IRVINE: Does our attorney have anything to say about where this might best fit in, or whether it’s already covered here? <br />YUEN: Well, if you want to do this, we could put it in 14-1 and make what’s the present part the (a) and make a (b) which <br />would be Statement of Policy, and then you don’t have to change all the numbers of everything else. <br />HERKES: Oh, you do have to? <br />IRVINE: No, just say Policy and Enactment. <br />HERKES: You don’t have to change, okay. Right. <br />BESS: How about just reworking Section 14. ‘The council shall adopt by ordinance a code of ethics which – <br />HERKES: ‘By which all elected and appointed officers’? <br />IRVINE: No. <br />BESS: I don’t know. <br />HERKES: No. That’s a process. You started this. <br />PRANKE: Read the first part. If you add this, you’re not changing the Code of Ethics. There’s nothing in there that mandates <br />the County Council would change the Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics is not in the Charter. <br />HERKES: It isn’t now, right. <br />PRANKE: It isn’t. So, putting that into the Charter doesn’t change the Code of Ethics. It just puts more flowery words in the <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 05-31-00.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />