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Charter Commission -1 July 13, 2018 reason and I'm more preemptive in trying to address the problem before it becomes a problem, right? And the example, I guess, Council Members coming forward with legislation where they may have some type of financial benefit, whether it's direct or indirect, it's a public record that the Board of Ethics decided there was no conflict. So, that's an example of what you can consider as to what they did before. But again, we'll address it if or when the time comes. Good question. Okay, we're talking about gifts. Okay, in terms of gifts, there's this language in the Code where it states here that you shouldn't basically accept a gift under circumstances in which it can be reasonably inferred that the gift is intended to influence you in the performance of your duties or intended as a reward for any official action on the employee's part. So, there are exceptions to this contained in the Code. The exceptions usually, they consist of whether you exchanged gifts during Christmas, holidays, birthdays, those are exceptions. But generally speaking, be wary of gifts. When they say be wary meaning if anything seems out of the norm, then we should have a talk, right? Because now that you're on the Commission you shouldn't be getting gifts from someone that you never got gifts from before, right? We should be mindful of those things because I don't see that as a—something that's likely, but if it should happen, again, that's the smell test. That's the—who is this? Why am I getting this gift all of sudden? Those kinds of things should raise the red flag in your head, right? So, if that should come up, please let me know. Okay. We're wrapping up here. Confidentiality. This provision basically says that the information that you receive as an officer of this Commission should remain confidential, both confidential and privileged information. As Jon mentioned earlier, when we go into executive session, those matters are confidential up until the time that the matter is deemed to be disposed of or resolved. At that point in time, it could become public. When I say could, those things are not released as a matter of course, but if there should be a record's request and the matter is already basically pau or done, then the need for executive session, basically, is no longer there and those things could become publicly disclosed. The last slide is just our caveat saying that this is not all inclusive that if you have any questions, please let us know. We're here to help. Any questions? CHR. ADAMS: Is there anyone—any commissioner has any questions for Mr. Yoshimoto? Thank you, Mr. Yoshimoto. MR. YOSHIMOTO: Okay, thank you for hanging in there everyone. Page 34