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Ms. Kahakalau: <br />Mr. Goodenow: <br />you and I am at your service to answer any questions that you may <br />have and any comments that you may have. I have a copy of <br />the...you know essentially its 2 1/2...3 pages...I guess 2 1/2 pages or <br />so. Sections 14...1 through 14.6 of the code and so I'd be happy to <br />look at any of those and be interested in your comments if you <br />have any. <br />Thank you very much. We have a two...well concerns...he calls <br />them concerns so I will call them concerns as well. From one of <br />our members, Mr. Rick Robinson, who couldn't be here today... <br />he's out of the country. And if it's alright I would like to read <br />those for the record. The first point being and he asked us to share <br />those with you. First point being...the Ethics Board should receive <br />disclosure statements from politicians, senior county management <br />officials and from special contract individuals...that's the part that <br />he's highlighting. The special contract individuals hired under <br />none bid contract for county work. So that is his first concern. <br />Getting those disclosures statements from politicians, senior <br />county management officials, as well as special contract <br />individuals hired under none bid contract for county work. And <br />his second concern is that special contract issued by the Mayor <br />should be forwarded to the Board of Ethics as a matter of business <br />for review prior to issuance. That review should include a <br />justification of why this contract is being issued. So that was again <br />Mr. Rick Robinson who is one of the members of the Board of <br />Ethics. These were his two concerns that he asked us to share with <br />you. <br />Just add one little bit to that cause I know Mr. Robinson mentioned <br />this at the other meeting. Is that...I know if you look at the <br />Charter section 14-3. Under the disclosure of interest provision <br />there it says it shall be incumbent upon all employees or officers of <br />the County to make full disclosure in writing to the appointing <br />authority or to the council and the case of an elective officer. <br />These interests and file a disclosure with a County Clerk shall be a <br />matter of public record. It's not really clear. I think about how we <br />do that and Mr. Robinson for example said well...if a County <br />elected officer it gets put there for the public yes but in the charter <br />it also states that the board is...you know to interpret the code and <br />do these things and shouldn't we be looking at it. I mean we look <br />at the other ones that get sent to us right and we...I don't know <br />how. We at least see if there's discrepancies or we want more <br />information we do that...but we don't do that with these and <br />maybe we should as it does relate to the Code of Ethics. <br />4 <br />