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 yes it is okay it is Monday November 4 2024 530 p.m. and I am calling a special

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 meeting of the Board of Ethics together to to order and I would like to start

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 with a roll call to establish a forum. Chair Ranzee? Here. Vice Chair Pavlik? Here.

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 Member Everhard? Here. Member Zoltner? Here. Member Rankin? Here.

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 Everyone, all of the current members are here. So I've established that there is a

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 quorum present. This is an evidence hearing hearing regarding the ethics

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 complaint number 24-002 determined to be action and will by a panel of the Board

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 of Ethics on October 7th 2024 concerning alleged violations of ethics

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 ordinance section 2-273. This hearing is being conducted under the authority of

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 Denton code of ordinance article 11 section 2-281 parenthesis C. So I would

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 like to call for any abstentions if we have any. I don't know if I'm supposed to

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 abstain or not. If you were appointed by either the complainant or the

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 with my name. I also have to recuse because I was appointed by the

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 complainant. And I am going to recuse myself. So that is Patricia Ranke,

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 Justin Pavlik, and Mel Ramsey. So under the rules of your meetings you have to

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 have a quorum to conduct business under section 2-281 meetings B. A quorum is at

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 least four members. Since three has recused at least two members and there

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 is no quorum to be able to take action.

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 Okay so we will make those affidavits during the break and so we don't have a

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 quorum so this hearing is going to have to be postponed until we have enough

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 members for a hearing. We need two more people correct to take action. Right in

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 order to postpone somebody would have to make a motion to postpone and since you

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 lack a quorum I don't believe that you can postpone this hearing. Okay so what

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 is our action? So the record is going to reflect no action could be taken due to

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 lack of quorum. Okay so that is effectively the end of this hearing this

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 evening. So we will take a five minute break and we will re-intern for our

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 regular meeting. I have a question before we do. If we postpone now we are would

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 take us outside of that 30 day. Now do we need to cancel this and

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 reschedule or do we start over because we would be well beyond the 30 day

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.