Anchorage Assembly: Board of Ethics Commission Meeting

Order and get rolling. So we're at 3:33pm on June 4, 2026, for a regular meeting of the Board of Ethics. Ms. Schleppie, would you please call roll? Yes. Chair Bellerive?

Present. Ms. Mogadam? Present. Ms. Guess?

Present. Mr. Drama and Mr. Kacher? Present. All right, sure.

You have a quorum. All right. First thing we've got on our agenda today is at item three, approval of the meetings of our previous or minutes of our previous meeting. And board would take a motion.

Move. To approve and a second. Second, any. Discussion, seeing and hearing none. The motion is to approve the minutes of the previous meeting for April 21, 2026.

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And with none opposed, the motion carries. Next item we have on the agenda today is at item four, disclosures, where today we have, I think, notably two or an ethics complaint for a potential violation and two requests for an advisory opinion. Does anyone have disclosures relating to the subject matter on today's agenda to, well, disclose?

None for me. None for me and none for me as well. Except to the extent that. Let me double check here. I think there is one potential one that given that the request for an advisory opinion is confidential, I might should raise that in the closed session.

Ms. Lepi,.

That sounds like that would. Be a good idea. All right. And I'm not sure about the culture of disclosures in this body, so I too, will have something related to the confidential agenda. As to the public agenda, I'm a neighbor and good friend of municipal attorney Eva Gardner.

However, I don't believe that that relationship requires my reclusal from the matter that she presents in her proposal to the board.

I think that that's, you know, that is accurate here. I don't think that that's a relationship that would require recusal either. Ms. Slept, is that something that would call for a vote, or is that something that we could proceed on? I think, chair, you would say that. You don't find that there is a conflict.

Okay, well, I don't find that there's a conflict there. And so the next item on our agenda today is at item five, unfinished business. That is ethics complaint for potential violation 2026 01. And we could either proceed into the closed session or if the board would so prefer, move down the agenda to our, I guess our consent agenda first before going intent into closed session. Is there a preference one way or the other?

Yeah, I would get everything done and then go in to closed session. All right, well, we'll go Ahead and move down the agenda to item six. First. We have under six A roman at one, forms for board review, notice of intent to respond to public solicitation.

Believe that we can likely take these as a block for six A one one through three. Board would entertain a motion. So moved.

And is there a second for the approval of 6A 1:1 through 3? Second. And any discussion on my part. I think the only brief discussion that I would have at 6 a 1 sub 3 was I think that there was a box that wasn't checked. But I think that the language of the form makes clear that the person doesn't have a conflict.

And for that reason, despite the box not being checked, I'm comfortable with approving this as is any further discussion.

Seeing and hearing none. The motion is to approve the forms at 6A 1 sub 1 through 3. All those in favor, please say aye.

And all those opposed? Seeing and hearing none. The motion carries. And six A1 sub one through three are approved. Next item we have on the new business is at 6A 2 sub 1 through 14.

I believe the board would consider a motion to approve these disclosures of economic interest in a municipal contract or business by a public servant.

So moved. I will second. And a second. And. And any discussion, Seeing and hearing none.

The motion is to approve the items at 6A2 1 through 14. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And those opposed? Seeing and hearing none. The items at 6A2 1 through 14 are approved.

Next item we have on our public agenda is at 6B. Request for Advisory Opinion 2026 02.

Mr. Chair, I was going to suggest something here, so I talked to Eva this morning about this, and it's certainly not an urgent issue. I mean, they do. Would like to get more clarification before, you know, as this comes up routinely as elections come up. But because we have limited time today, I think the confidential.

The two confidential ones are a little bit more timely. So perhaps maybe you'd like to take those up in executive session. If there's time at the end, we could always come back to it. But we could always, you know, look at it at next month's meeting, too. But I do think it is important to get to the confidential ones today with the time we have.

All right. Any objection to doing so from the members of the board?

None here on here,. No. So we'll go ahead and pin that and roll back up to the calendar to Item 5A and believe the board would entertain a motion to go into a closed session. So moved. Krista I mean, before you vote, I was just going to ask, is it okay to go into executive session for both of these so we don't have to keep jumping back and forth?

So we could just make a motion to go into executive session to consider both confidential complaints and then come back out after we've deliberated on them? Yeah, that would work. All right, so the board would entertain a motion to go into closed session for both item 5A and 6. See? So moved.

And a second.

I'll second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And any opposed? Seeing and hearing none. I'll see you all in the closed session here.

Okay, let's see if I can find that.

Okay.

Chair, you're back in open session. It looks like everyone's here. All right, thank you. Being back in the open session here, the board would entertain a motion to direct the staff to seek more information on ethics complaint for potential violation 202601 and prepare draft opinions on our 202601 and 202603.

So moved. So second. Any further discussion, seeing and hearing none. All those in favor, please say aye.

And any opposed? And with none opposed, the motion carries.

And the next item we have on today's agenda then is at 6B. That is request for an advisory opinion. 2026 02.

Were we going to post postpone that? Were we going to talk about that one today or talk about that one later? I couldn't remember. I think it would make sense to postpone it to the next meeting and then we could discuss it after the. After we review the drafts for the other ones.

I agree.

All right. Well, I suppose the board would entertain a motion then. I suppose that would be a motion to. I guess. What would that table item six be?

So moved. And a second. Second. Second. Any further discussion, seeing and hearing none.

The motion is to table consideration of item 6B. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. And all those opposed? Seeing and hearing none. The motion carries. And the next item we have on today's agenda is at item 7, public participation.

Looking in the team's participants, I see no members of the public. And thus the last item on Today's agenda is at 8, adjournment. And I believe the board would entertain a motion. When are we meeting again?

I thought I remembered there used to be a point in here on the agenda for next meeting. Are we maintaining our first Thursday of the month schedule or given the first Thursday of next month is the 2nd of July, right before the holiday weekend? Do we want to look at another day. Yeah, I won't be here, so.

That. Seems wise to me. I think if. Chris, I could send out a doodle poll, that would be helpful.

All right. Yeah, can do that.

So, that being said, I move. Readjourn.

And a second. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.

And with none opposed? Motion carries. We are adjourned. Thank you, all. Thank you, everybody.

Have a good day, everyone.