From the staff and a chance for the complainant and respendent to speak. We have heard from the complainant and we have not heard from the respondent and it would help me to hear from mr. So st. Croix the rationale for disclosure. So i would encourage you to ask him that. Other questions from the commissioners . Commissioner studley, you wanted to wait until there was Public Comment. Is there anything else that you want to share is in . No, i agree with you and commissioner liu. I dont find this to be willful. Since the understanding that this was part of the investigative file and the degree to which it could have well been made with good faith and that we have teased apart this particular category of communication within the ethics staff as being the one place where there might be documents that were appropriately disclosed suggests to me that was a reasonable basis. Would any of the commissioners like to hear from mr. St. Croix on this . Yes. I think that would be helpful. Mr. St. C
And any part not restricted as a communication between ethics and comptroller can be revealed. So she is following on that interpretation. This is what you discussed at the october meeting . This was discussed at the october meeting. Yes. Did i say it incorrectly . I think you said it a little more narrowly than we decided. Okay. To the extent that a communication with the Controllers Office relates to an investigation that is covered. So internal communications, i dont really want to make its probably more accurate to rely on what we decided and said at the meeting, but with respect to internal communications what miss herrick appears to be saying here, if you redact the confidential portions, i. E. , the portions that relate to the investigation, the fact of the internal communication could be disclosable. Again, i think i shared my view we should follow miss herricks recommendation to produce the redacted document. With respect to whether this is a willful violation of the sunshine
Able to see what we get to see, what the Controllers Office sees, and what the commissioner itself sees. These investigations are factintensive. The commissioner spends a lot of time on them, and i would really like for you to be able to know and to prove that to you. We are bound by rules of nondisclosure. We are bound by the charter and state law and there is good reason for confidentialitis, i think as i set at the last meeting. We need to protect whistleblowers and need to protect people who talk to Commission Investigators and controllers investigators, in order to try to make this system work. So i dont think im alone in that. Next item on the agenda is discussion and possible action on the Ethics Commission budget. Mr. St. Croix, would you like to introduce this matter . So the numbers break down as before you in the memo. We have been asked in the past several budget years due to difficulties with city budget to make cuts so substantial that would prove damaging to the commissi
Else . Whats more to the point than beware. Is that american 11 tracking the call . They are the people who awoke september 11th leading ordinary lives. I was in my office sitting in that chair. Suddenly thrust into one of the most horrific days many this nations history. He said we have some planes. Try to make any more. We have planes. We clearly had a hijack in progress. They said be prepared to shoot down the next hijack track. I said roger. There were ten miles away. Nine miles, eight miles. This is their story. Who is going to hit us . The footnotes of 9 11. Tuesday, september 11th, 2001 dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. So begins the 9 11 Commission Report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. The fest event happened not in washington, boston, or new york, but here in portland, maine, at mike dewys ticket counter. It was just before 6 00 a. M. , and tuey had just hecked in the first commuter flight to boston. I stepped on to
Passes and the record should be produced as redacted. As a result of having produced agreed to produces the record as redacted, i think we should address the issue of whether the failure to release these documents was a willful violation of the sunshine ordinance. I think i have given my view that in light of the effort we made to review all of these documents, the discussion we had and arguments we heard with respect to this file and these records, that i certainly dont see willfulness here myself. I will open it up to my fellow commissioners to share whatever views that they have on the matter and well take Public Comment and go from there. I agree, i dont find a willful violation given the amount of time we had to spend in analyzing the issue ourselves. It was borderline, i think. I would be interested in hearing Public Comment first. Public comment on this item. Commissioner hur, i know you just want me to go away quietly. Mr. Met shaw, if i wanted you to go away quietly, im sure i