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appointment, appointment and removal. So, there are certain provisions that have to be <br />followed. I would want to add that in order to clarify and make sure that everyone <br />understands that the appointment and removal is subject to civil service law. Thank you. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Are there any questions for Mr. Ben? Thank you, Mr. Ben. Next we <br />have Mr. Del Pranke. <br />DEL PRANKE <br />(At this time Del Pranke came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MR. PRANKE: Good afternoon. Thank you all for the work you have done. I was off <br />island for some time and I wasn't aware of how much work you had been doing. I sent to the <br />Secretary, Communication 96, yesterday. I hope you will take a look at this. It seems that <br />we are looking at a lot of little things, but we are missing some pretty big ones. Corporation <br />Counsel, by the Charter, is required to be the chief legal counsel and legal advisor for all <br />employees, officers and boards and commissions and any other county entity. When <br />someone comes before, say, the Police Commission or the Ethics Board, the Corporation <br />Counsel is giving advice to both the board and to that person, which would not be allowed in <br />any other situation, legally. So we have a legal problem there with the way the Charter was <br />written originally, it would seem to me. So I put that into issue #1. <br />Issue #2 is defining what are boards, and what are commissions. They are two different <br />things, and we have been somewhat liberal in the way we have named them. An Ethics <br />Board, which we have, is sort of, I figure, patterned after the State Ethics Board. But what <br />we actually have is a Commission. A Commission is a group of people who are nominated <br />to a position or placed in a position and then allowed to operate independently pretty much. <br />In other words, it is their job to investigate without being controlled by the appointing <br />authority. Whereas, a board, such as the Water Board, is used to actually run things and <br />make things work. The Ethics Board should be the Ethics Commission. Thank you. <br />I have a couple of other things and I will put them in another Communication. Those two <br />things, I think are the most important, about Communication 96. The other one other thing <br />that I did put in there, that I want to discuss, is that it seems to me that lying should be a <br />violation of the County Code of Ethics; and that can be remedied by a Charter change. <br />Although the Code of Ethics is in the County Code, the minimum requirements for that are <br />placed elsewhere. Thank you very much. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Are there any questions for Mr. Pranke? Thank you, sir. Next we have <br />Mr. Brent Norris. Good afternoon, sir. <br />BRENT NORRIS <br />(At this time Brent Norris came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MR. NORRIS: Good afternoon. Thanks for allowing me to speak today. Today I am <br />representing myself. In the past I have testified on Resolution 731 -08 to further green jobs <br />and green opportunities on the island. We have since provided research and a sustainable <br />3 <br />