Nov 04, 2024 Board of Ethics on 2024-11-04 5:30 PM (Special Called)

yes it is okay it is Monday November 4 2024 530 p.m. and I am calling a special meeting of the Board of Ethics together to to order and I would like to start with a roll call to establish a forum. Chair Ranzee? Here. Vice Chair Pavlik? Here. Member Everhard? Here. Member Zoltner? Here. Member Rankin? Here. Everyone, all of the current members are here. So I've established that there is a quorum present. This is an evidence hearing hearing regarding the ethics complaint number 24-002 determined to be action and will by a panel of the Board of Ethics on October 7th 2024 concerning alleged violations of ethics ordinance section 2-273. This hearing is being conducted under the authority of Denton code of ordinance article 11 section 2-281 parenthesis C. So I would like to call for any abstentions if we have any. I don't know if I'm supposed to abstain or not. If you were appointed by either the complainant or the with my name. I also have to recuse because I was appointed by the complainant. And I am going to recuse myself. So that is Patricia Ranke, Justin Pavlik, and Mel Ramsey. So under the rules of your meetings you have to have a quorum to conduct business under section 2-281 meetings B. A quorum is at least four members. Since three has recused at least two members and there is no quorum to be able to take action. Okay so we will make those affidavits during the break and so we don't have a quorum so this hearing is going to have to be postponed until we have enough members for a hearing. We need two more people correct to take action. Right in order to postpone somebody would have to make a motion to postpone and since you lack a quorum I don't believe that you can postpone this hearing. Okay so what is our action? So the record is going to reflect no action could be taken due to lack of quorum. Okay so that is effectively the end of this hearing this evening. So we will take a five minute break and we will re-intern for our regular meeting. I have a question before we do. If we postpone now we are would take us outside of that 30 day. Now do we need to cancel this and reschedule or do we start over because we would be well beyond the 30 day hearing? In order to postpone we would have to have a quorum. Somebody would have to make a motion to postpone and then you can't postpone. So the record is going to reflect no action was taken due to lack of quorum. So we automatically are extended then or rescheduled. There's nothing in the rules that addresses that so that's a question that the city auditor will look into. The possible actions are refiling of the complaint because there was no action taken due to lack of quorum. Just touching bases. Yeah. So is this meeting adjourned? We are now adjourned at 5 34 p.m. on Monday November 4th. So we will have a break until a quarter to six and then we'll be adjourned.