Board of Ethics Meeting

That you do. Well, let's go ahead and— I mean, it's, it's 3:31. We can call the meeting to order.

I guess you've started the recording. So the first thing we have then is our roll call. Would you please call roll? Yes, Mr. Bellerive? Present.

Miss Guess?

Ms. West, present. Mr. Drama, present. And sure, I believe Ms. Mogadam is excused. That's correct.

Uh, sure, you have a quorum. Thank you kindly. Next item we have on our agenda this afternoon is, well, the approval of today's agenda, and the board would of course hear a motion.

And is there a motion to approve today's agenda?

Can I move to approve the agenda?

That's a good question.

Yes, anybody can make the motion. So, okay, okay. Well, fair enough. I'll go ahead and move that we approve the agenda for today's meeting. Is there a second?

Second.

And any discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, the motion is to approve today's agenda. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.

Seeing and hearing none opposed, the motion carries, and we have an agenda this evening. Oh no, no, I'm saying it. The next item we have on today's agenda, of course, is the approval of the minutes of our previous meeting, and the board will entertain a motion to approve those minutes.

I'll go ahead and move to approve the meetings of our previous— or the minutes of our previous meeting. And is there a second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion?

Does anyone see any issues with the minutes from our meeting of November 20th?

Seeing and hearing none, the motion is to approve the minutes of our previous meeting. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And with none opposed, the motion carries. Next item we have now. Oh, we have—.

We have Ms. Guest joining the call, and if we could have that reflected on the roll call as well, please.

Will do, Chair. Thank you. Next item we have on today's agenda is our first substantive item, that is our consent agenda. We have disclosure of economic interest in a municipal contract or business by a public servant at 5A.1, and of course the board would entertain a motion to approve these disclosures at 5A.1A through K, unless any member has one that they would like considered individually.

I'll move, uh, A1A through K. And a second? Second.

And any discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, the motion is to approve the disclosure of economic interest in municipal contractor business at 5A.1.a through k. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. And with none opposed, the motion carries. Next item we have this afternoon is disclosure by an elected official of a gift in excess of $500.

At 5A2, we have only one of these.

I move 5A2. And a second.

Second. And any discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, the motion is for the approval of the disclosure by an elected official of a gift in excess of $500. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And with none opposed, the motion carries. Next and final item we have in the consent agenda is at 5A.3. That is notice of intent to respond to a public solicitation.

And of course, have we a motion?

So moved. And a second?

Second.

And any discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, the motion is for the approval of a notice of intent to respond to public solicitation at 5A3. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. And with none opposed, the motion carries. Next item we have on this afternoon's agenda is unfinished business, of which we have none, bringing us down to new business at 7A, items for improvements to ethics code, sub-A, allowing members to enact changes, and sub-B, clarifying provisions. And I think this may yet be an appropriate time to tag in Paul. Uh, thank you.

Yeah, I was just going to give an update. So this is the draft. I'd finished the draft, uh, or proposed ordinance, um, and but I wanted the municipal attorney's office to review that just to make sure that it's formatted and there's no like unintended consequences for some of the changes that we're recommending. So they're in the process of doing that right now. I would anticipate that that'll be ready for the board to review at the January meeting.

But that, you know, it's obviously not urgent, but I think we're, we're well in hand. I did finish up with the draft proposed ordinance that I think will be ready to review. So this is just what I think I'll recommend, or what it will be up to the board to talk about at the next meeting, will be whether they want to recommend to the assembly that there be several code changes that were, that we mentioned in the annual report from last year. So I think the assembly is looking at If there's changes that we want made, you know, we'll submit it to them and then they'll be happy to do it. But yeah, I think that'll be ready for January.

Excellent. Appreciate the update and look forward to seeing that. I don't remember what the subparagraph A was about though. Maybe somebody else could refresh my memory on that. That was the clarifying provisions.

I wasn't really at the last couple meetings when the board was dealing with the advisory opinion. So I don't know if there was anything specific about subparagraph A.

Take a look here. I'll have to go back through my notes too. Because I don't recall that there was—. That there were any specific changes that were identified by any members, and we may have had that as sort of a placeholder if there were if there was anything identified by members. Yeah, that makes sense.

Of course, yeah, we can always— as board members, you know, you can always, if the ethics code needs to be revised or if anything's not working or you're having some things appear ambiguous, of course, the assembly has expressed like they're always open to improving it if you see something that needs to be changed.

No, and I don't think that we had anything specific that we previously mentioned whenever we were discussing that A sub A.

Any questions from any other members for Paul?

Yeah, I do. Omariya. Paul, so if in the interim something comes up and cannot wait until our next meeting. Is it possible to shoot you an email?

Yes, absolutely. Yeah, please contact me via email. The reason we don't—. Like, just individually it's fine, but we, we're just cognizant of the Open Meetings Act. So if, like, we're going to be discussing proposed changes and adding those, like, then we get it added to the agenda and make sure it's done during the meeting.

But, like, just But we can obviously, if you see something individually, like under, you know, just one person emailing is fine. It's not a— it's not considered a meeting. Oh, okay. I wasn't— I wasn't sure. Yeah, no, that's okay.

Yeah, absolutely. There's no problem with that. So, yeah, if you have reviewed the ethics code and there's a provision that you think we should also include in that, yeah, just please let me know. Okay, thanks.

Okay, any further questions for Paul?

Seeing and hearing none, I think we may be prepared to move down to our next item on this afternoon's agenda at 8, member comments.

And have we any comments from our members this afternoon?

Seeing and hearing none. Next item we have on our agenda this afternoon is audience participation. And it does not appear that we have any audience with us this afternoon.

And so the next item we have then becomes determining the date and time for our next meeting.

I see our third Thursday. Is that what our, our MO has been, right? Yeah. Yep. The 15th, January 15th.

The 15th of January. That is going to be the day before my departure from town and subsequent Goodness gracious, I'm not—. My availability will become terrible until March, so that still works out perfectly for me.

That works for me. Yep, works for me. All right, we'll pen it in at January 15th, same time, same call.

Happy holidays, everyone. Oh, happy holidays to you too. Glad to—. Glad to be spending it back in Alaska, right?

Definitely. All right, thank you. Yeah, I think that that about squares that away. I guess our last item on the agenda this afternoon then is a motion to adjourn, which of course the board would consider. So moved.

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

Hearing no opposition, the motion carries, and we are adjourned at 3:44 PM.