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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989/05/08 Board of Ethics Minutes . . . ,J Jennie Fulasz City Clerk MINUTES OF A BOARD OF ETHICS MEETING CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA May 8, 1989 Council Conference Room 6:30 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------------ MEMBERS PRESENT: Donald Swanson, Harriet Acton, Rodolfo David, Leo J. Kelly, Jerry McNutt, and David Ferguson MEMBERS ABSENT: None CITY STAFF PRESENT: Ruth M. Fritsch, Deputy City Attorney The meeting commenced at 6:35 p.m. Roll was taken and it was noted that all were present except there was no seventh member. First, old business was addressed and it was noted that everyone did not get a copy of the new code and members need a copy of Chapter 2.28 and requested that Lorraine Kraker send copies to each member with the minutes. MSUC (Acton/Rodolfo) to adopt the minutes from the February 21, 1989 meeting subject to a correction of the date from "February 21, 1988" to "February 21, 1989". Under new business, the Chairman indicated that he would contact Acting Director of Personnel Boshell regarding the issue of trying to persuade all other city employees to adopt the Code of Ethics vOluntarily. The Chairman sent around the Ethics Factor and noted that the budget allocates a certain amount of money for books but the Ethics Committee has spent none of it. The pamphlet that was passed around the room offered an Ethics training package and handbook and the suggestion was that the Ethics Committee could either decide to buy the book or the whole package. The pamphlet was sent around while the remaining issues were discussed. The next issue that was discussed was what to do about the seventh member of the Board. It was noted that George Ronis was appointed by the judge but he was never sworn in and he has had absolutely no contact with the City and Lorraine has been unable to contact him. Therefore, the City Attorney's office was directed to get the name of the next available party to be reviewed for selection to be the seventh member of the Board and to take whatever steps are necessary to make sure this matter gets before the Council so that a seventh member can be expeditiously appointed. MSUC (Swanson/David). aM !( 0..( t 1)/1 .I( { / /- ! (if /({kJ(<i{ . Board of Ethics Minutes 5/8/89 Meeting Page Two The next matter of business was that Mr. Kelly has 82 to 84 days left. MSUC (Acton/Ferguson) to bring to the attention of the City Council that Mr. Kelly's term is about to expire within the next two months and request that his appointment be renewed. Harriet Acton moved to amend the motion to include Mr. Ferguson as well. Chairman Swanson seconded, and that motion passed unanimously. MSUC (Acton/David) to adopt the amended motion. . The next matter of business was Tom Harron's request for an opinion. There was some discussion about this and Mrs. Acton noted that she and the rest of the Board appreciated Tom's straightforwardness and forthrightness and other members endorsed Mrs. Acton's comments and noted that Tom was to be highly commended. There was general discussion reflecting the feeling among all members that there was really nothing wrong with Tom participating in the subject matter of his memo. MSUC (Ferguson/Swanson) for the Board to acknowledge Tom's May 3, 1989 letter and further move that he be permitted to continue to advise the City Council on all matters pertaining to the relocation of the airport and the Board finds that there is no reason for Mr. Harron to abstain from participating in any action before the City Council having to do with the subject matter discussed in his May 3, 1989 memo. Next the Board addressed goals and objectives and brought up again the matter of contacting the Acting Personnel Director regarding trying to get employees to vOluntarily adopt the existing Code of Ethics. Mrs. Acton noted that it would be easier to accomplish this by getting the blessing of the union representatives and also to get Candy's feelings about this. A joint meeting of Candy, the Ethics Committee and union representatives was discussed. Mr. McNutt observed that a meeting like that would be productive. Mrs. Acton suggested that the Board ask union representatives to bring us their codes if they have them. Mr. Ferguson suggested a possible recommendation that the union people review the current code and if they see a need to meet, then the Board could meet with them. This would avoid waste and would promote a meaningful discussion. . Next there was a discussion about the ethics publications and it as suggested that the Board needed to find out what other publications were available. A discussion was had regarding asking the City Librarian to bring the Board samples from Reader's Guide so that the members could review the available literature on ethics. Mrs. Acton thought this was a good idea. MSUC (Ferguson/Acton) to contact the City Librarian, Rosemary Lane, to see what she has regarding ethics and ask her to do a reference search and provide a list to us of copies of . . . Board of Ethics Minutes 5/8/89 Meeting Page Three periodicals. MS (Swanson/David) that David and Harriet head up a subcommittee to contact the Library and obtain such a list and review the subject, but the motion failed by a vote of 1-5. MSUC (Ferguson/Acton) to limit the list to no more than ten publications regarding ethics and have Lorraine Kraker write a letter to Rosemary on the Ethics Committee's behalf, and to insure that the letter to Rosemary indicated that she should provide this list of periodicals at her convenience. Future new business was discussed tentatively the next meeting will be time the election of officers would be 5684a and June had. it 26, was decided that 1989 and at that