Code of Ethics Adjudicating Body - Regular Meeting

Alright. Good evening, everyone. We are yes. Hello. It is 601.

We will go ahead and begin the board of ethics meeting for today. We start as usual with the pledge of allegiance. Member foreman, will you lead for us? I Alrighty. As always, we start off with public comment.

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Good evening.

K. Your three minutes will begin as soon as you start.

My name is Mason Adona. I just wanted to say, I wanted to say a thank you for all of you guys coming out today from numbers four to the city attorney. And the I just wanted to give a update on the day of lie too, which is gonna start on the twenty second. That's pretty much it.

Okay. Thank you very much. That's okay. It's okay. We're just having a conversation. Alright. Well, thank you very much for that, young man. Do we have any other public comment on the line or on no other. Okay. Great.

We will move on to next item. The consent calendar minutes for September 4. We did skip our meeting for October, so we're back to approving the minutes from September 4. Any any discussion or anything to add? Do we have a motion to approve them as they were We approve the minutes. Okay. Wonderful. Any seconds? I can second. Alrighty. Madam Clerk. Ready? Okay.

Motion carries unanimous.

Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Alrighty. The next item, I do have here items, four, five, and six. As always, we we are open for public comment. However, these three items for the hearings, were canceled. The complaints for each of the council members were withdrawn. And so we will not be, having those formal hearings this evening. Do we still wait. Because they're technically on the agenda.

You have a discussion item three first.

Oh, I'm sorry. I went I skipped. I'm gonna blame the new hour starting for the first time this late. Okay. Apologies. So on the discussion calendar item three, formation of ad hoc committee for potential ballot measure, for consideration by charter review committee. So, do we have interest in the ad hoc committee?

What is that? Can you summarize? I'm not familiar with this item. It doesn't look familiar. Remember Hernandez, do you?

We've actually discussed it before and brought it up with several times. It's the committee to discuss the we it's a hide a hawk committee to discuss going before the charter committee that will be put together by city council to basically determine, you know, how the board of ethics will be structured and what powers will have as far as, you know, subpoena power, things like that after all the all the research we did with talking to the different cities, San Diego and San Jose, all those different cities to figure out what what our board of ethics may be able to, you know, look like based on those the way those board of ethics are structured.

So it's

It's been a while.

Yeah. It is. Yeah. We've but it's it's the follow-up ad hoc to what member Vega and member Hernandez vice chair Hernandez had had originally researched. Okay. So volunteers for this particular committee?

Me, of course.

We appreciate you continuing your work on it. I would think

the two original ad hoc people would be the ideal candidates to do this since they're completely familiar with it.

Yeah. Member Riga is is absent today. I don't wanna make an assumption on his part. We can if there's not anyone else that has an interest in it, maybe we can I would be interested? Pardon. Okay. No. That's great. I think we well, we can have three total. So maybe we so for the record, then we have member Hernandez Hernandez and and member Kirkenstein Kilkenstein.

And then maybe we can add it as well to next meeting to give member Vega an opportunity to to join if he so wants to because I would imagine he probably does. Oh, yeah. Or we we can have the two of them on it for now and then and then add it again to next month.

You can certainly do that. You can make your appointment today of the two members, and then we'll agendize it again in December. And if you if it's the pleasure of the board to add Gil to add board member Vega, you can do that in December.

Okay. Yep. That sounds that sounds good. So we'll go ahead and do the two volunteers we have this time around, and and they'll be the initial two members. We'll kinda discuss again in December.

Alright. And then no public comment on this item. I always like to kinda give time. Okay. Nope. Going once, going twice. Yes. Okay. Yes. So we I I will make a motion to approve the two volunteers we have for joining the ad hoc committee.

I'll second.

Motion carries unanimous.

Alrighty. So next items, again, four, five, and six, which I tried to shove forward too soon. Still, open to to public comment. We did, announce there was a withdrawal of the, complaint for all of the below. So the hearings will not take place this evening, but we do leave open the items for public comment. We'll just give a few minutes for that to happen.

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Okay.

Any further discussion from our group on those? No? Okay. Powering through all of those. Next item, communication.

So ad hoc updates, creating method for public education. This is a a standing item. We have not had movement. I, unfortunately, have been out of town, quite a bit. So without, unless, you know, vice chair Hernandez, and and this needs to have a correction, in fact, because, the people that are on the ad hoc are myself, vice chair Hernandez, and member Foreman, not member Vega.

He's not he's not on this committee. But, member Foreman and Hernandez, have you happen to have any meetings while I've been out of town? No? Okay. So it'll this this item will just stay on until December. Hopefully, we will have an update. We will have an we will have an update in December for this item. Any public comment for that? Communication, no comment. Oh, Great.

Okay. Then item eight, brief reports on meetings attended by board members. Anyone have any updates on meetings they've attended representing board of ethics? I know we had yesterday potential meeting that we were going to, government process committee that was was canceled. So nothing to report there. Anyone else have any reportings? No. We are rocking and rolling tonight. Okay. Next item.

Items for future board consideration as requested by board of ethics members. Does anyone have any new items they would like to add to December's calendar. We did already discuss the one for the additional ad hoc availability for member Vega. Any other pressing concerns? Everyone's so quiet today.

Alright. Well, I hate to say, but being the last item on our agenda, we are closed out for the night in, I think, record time this time. Alright. Meeting adjourned.