2000-05-31 Charter Commission Minutes

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minutes 05-31-00Page 21 of 54 Charter because there’s nothing there that mandates the County Council to write any new ordinance that would change the Code of Ethics. RAY: Right. PRANKE: I approve of what you’re saying, of putting it in there, but it doesn’t change the Code of Ethics at all. HERKES: I understand. IRVINE: And we don’t want to keep adding things that aren’t substantive because people will just get confused when they go to the polls. PRANKE: I’m sorry, I don’t mean to burst your bubble. I like the wording. SANTANGELO: Oh, we’re big people. wording. HERKES: We have a Charter that’s full of action items and no policy. IRVINE: Yes. HERKES: And this is one other thing with you will do this, this, this, but no reason behind it, no policy, no this is why we want you to do this, this, and this. It comes up over and over in the Charter. And this would add the flowery language but it also adds a little substance. SANTANGELO: For discussion, this would be number 14 that we would put on the ballot? We can’t stick this somewhere? RAY: This would be an additional. SANTANGELO: It would be an additional. IRVINE: I think so, yes. SANTANGELO: Yes. RAY: I don’t think it’s anything particularly controversial or difficult to explain so I don’t see it as a major issue in terms of an addition. SANTANGELO: Then before we vote on the whole thing, then I would make a motion to amend it to delete the word ‘justifiably’. IRVINE: And ‘by their example’? SANTANGELO: Steve, you had said that – BESS: I don’t have a hang up. I’m just – SANTANGELO: I like the simplification, yes, and okay, justifi – okay. HIGASHI: I second the amendment. RAY: So, let’s vote on the amendment first. Does everybody understand the amendment, the two deletions? SANTANGELO: ‘Justifiably’ and ‘by their example’. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 05-31-00.html7/1/2011