08-09-2011 CC RPT 11 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING BY THE CODE OF ETHICS ADJUDICATING BODY ON JULY 19, 2011 MEMBERS: Chair Robert Elliott and Members Georgia Warnke, Donald Hawecker, Susan Coffer, Ralph Megna, and Alternate Arthur Butler. STAFF PRESENT: Colleen Nicol, Gregory Priamos, and Bradley Hudson ALSO PRESENT: Taffi Brandriff, Mary Shelton, Alicia Robinson, Robert Melsh, John Brandriff, Michael Morales, and Tom Schultz ELLIOTT: I'd like to call this meeting to order and introduce each of the committee members. My name is Robert Elliott and I am the Chairman of Public Utilities Commission. BUTLER: Art Butler, Chair of the Human Resources Board. COFFER: Susan Coffer, President of the Board of Library Trustees. WARNKE: Georgia Warnke, Chair of the Human Relations Commission. MEGNA: Ralph Megna, Chair of the Cultural Heritage Board. HAWECKER: Donald Hawecker, Chairman of Commission on Disabilities. ELLIOTT: Mr. Butler will be the alternate. All members are present. I'd like to call the City Attorney to explain the procedures to followed for the hearing. PRIAMOS: Yes, Mr. Chairman. Oral communications from the public, each speaker is limited to three minutes. Speaker cards must be submitted to the City Clerk in order to have an opportunity to speak. The public comment must be specifically directed at the complaint at issue or the speaker will be asked to properly focus their comments or they will be called out of order. The Body is advised the public comment is not evidence on the issue of whether or not a Code of Ethics violation has occurred and thus should not be considered as such. At the conclusion of public comment the complainant will be given 15 minutes in which to make a presentation and add anything to the written complaint previously submitted. The party against whom the complaint has been asserted will then be given an opportunity to respond, make a statement and /or submit any evidence on his behalf. Following the response and submission of any evidence on his behalf, the hearing will be closed and the Body will discuss, deliberate and vote as to whether or not the evidence supports a finding of a violation of the Code of Ethics. Since we don't have the speaker cards I guess we can proceed without them at this point Mr. Chair. ELLIOTT: [inaudible] If you would come up and introduce yourself sir. MELSH: I'd be happy to. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Robert Melsh. I'm here to speak on behalf of Mr. Brandriff. I would state at the outset to those of you who are sitting on this distinguished panel to take a minute and to reflect on the rules and procedures of your specific commission, particularly the gentleman dealing with civility. Look at those rules and procedures and determine what sort of rules govern absences, particularly excessive absences. And consider what sort of consequences there are for excessive absences MM