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Mr. Yoshimoto: Well so do you have the authority? I don't recall there being an <br />explicit provision as to the public official. So you're correct. <br />Mr. Goodenow: Correct. <br />Mr. Yoshimoto: So if you want clarity, then that's something that could be <br />clarified. The question of whether it needs to be in the charter in <br />the code...I mean that's really...a decision that... <br />Mr. Goodenow: Right. Well I leave that to you. That's a policy kind of thing too <br />right? <br />Mr. Adams: <br />Well actually if we had this conversation surely. So the way our <br />rules work on the Charter Commission is that the Commissioners <br />themselves will be making the proposals right? But the proposals <br />can come from and we anticipate that they'll come from a variety <br />of sources and so as you...if you would like to provide a little bit <br />more for example clarity on making more explicit the authority of <br />the Board of Ethics in reviewing the disclosure of interest forms. <br />There's nothing that prevents you from adding that as a charter <br />item. What we'll look at and as we have discussed at the Charter <br />Commission already is...Is this a charter item or is this a code <br />item. For example, if it falls into those kinds of silos. But <br />authority of course is a big picture kind of thing so you would <br />anticipate that that might be something that would be considered at <br />a Charter level perhaps. I don't make those decisions that's the <br />entire Commission of course it will review that. <br />Ms. Sumner -Mack: I'm afraid that I. When I read this idea from Mr. Robinson, I <br />thought he was mainly speaking about item 2...the special <br />contracts provisions and that I thought that was related to <br />something that came up recently in our deliberations about. I don't <br />know if you call it a sole source or special contract that doesn't <br />comply with all the rules about you know getting bids and that sort <br />of thing. So I don't know whether this would apply to the charter <br />or to the code. I'm not an attorney, but anyway. Does anyone else <br />have that impression that it was dealing a lot with that? <br />Mr. Goodenow: <br />Kind of related to that...I'm sorry I digressed just a bit...but I <br />don't know what Mr. Adams would like from us and I'm not sure <br />what we'd like to give to him but you know there's two ways I see <br />this. One is we can just share hey this is our experience. I read <br />this section disclosure of interest is not clear and just give you <br />some ideas of what we're thinking or we could formally have our <br />Chair write a letter and put things in it and we could have a <br />subsequent meeting where we have a draft you know and discuss <br />6 <br />