City of Laredo, Texas Ethics Commission, 9 Sep 2020

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Ethics Commission Meeting 090920

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Okay, I'm going to call roll okay.

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Is online but we are unable to see or hear her try to call her.

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Should I go running, get ripple.

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So she's not equal.

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Good afternoon, mr.

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It's a little broken up. Could you repeat that again, please yeah, I'm just testing the audio.

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See yes, uh audio and video is coming in clear. um We are still pending uh members, so we are just waiting at the moment. I will go ahead and put you on mute and we'll be waiting for the attorney to go ahead and provide us instructions.

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She says that she sees them.

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Oh, we can't can we call her on the phone. That's the only way. Okay,.

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Yeah we're going to call miss caliban just to um make sure that she's she's uh she.

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Can hear us um she can see us, but I don't know what's going on on her end. Okay, so we're.

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Gonna call her.

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The actual uh invitation also has a phone number that she can use she can call into and it will bring her into through the audio.

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And it's her email. Let me check, I have the email in front of me actually.

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It's froggy, lady.

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uh Froggy, lady 1950, I have it right here. Yes, let me let me go ahead and send it to her, so she can see the that.

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Way she can see the.

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um We are waiting to establish a quorum. uh The situation priority procedure manual requires uh the form is not established after 20 minutes after the post. It's time then um they may call a chair or another commission. Nur can call the meeting to order and just establish that there was no forum so that the meeting may be cancelled or rescheduled.

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I have a question for cynthia: did we how come we didn't call the rest of the members? You didn't call the whole membership. What happened.

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And oh, no, they they have been removed because they are part of a um public office. uh Mr patino is running for public office, so he was removed. So his his position is vacant and also.

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uh Well, mark peace was replaced as a way for the individual to get uh to swear it. um District six is also he's running for borg and district. Seven has been appointed um as an uh committee treasurer.

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So is that mean that the money that they were going to get we're going to get it now? Okay,.

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Let me ask you another question: well, I better wait for elsa, because I've got a question for the city attorney.

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Yeah yeah, you can go ahead and ask the question.

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Well, if delta coming on or not.

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Are you going to call this? uh Oh, do you want me to or he would.

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Say mr huskies.

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Did you uh send miss carvan the link.

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Yes, I I just sent mithridates a link, and I highlighted the phone number, which is a domestic number, so she'll be able to call it, and it has the code as well with it, so that way, she'll be able to call and use the specific code to come into the meeting for the audience. Okay, thank you.

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Mr rasquez is going to act as a magician right.

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I'm just support just support.

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Well, it's very easy to get in. If you have the right connection, I really enjoy it. Like I told you earlier, I attended three meetings, two meetings already through so a great way to participate without having to face other people and this possibility of picking up the virus.

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Still not getting.

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We can see miss kalvan, but we can't. We can't hear her. There's a number that was provided in the link that mr vasquez sent that you can call in with a just a regular uh phone um and you can go ahead and and speak and be heard.

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Okay, well then I'll proceed with a question I have for the city attorney. Does the police department have a code of conduct.

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That they follow yes or.

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No, I don't have the answer to that question right now. um Ms castillon and other city attorneys available. um Maybe she can go ahead and answer it or provide me with an answer. So I can. I can answer you as soon as I have an answer.

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Well, the question is that, when mr martinez is being accused of, has that gone through the channels at the police department?

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So the uh the police department has policies and procedures that they're required to abide by that are also control. The um police department, which includes the the communications department for the police department as well.

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We're saying that if you violated those there's some kind of discipline measures taken.

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um Mr, since we don't have a quorum available, maybe we should wait to establish a quorum before we discuss the specific matters uh that are on the agenda.

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Okay, then we're done right.

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The um uh procedures manual requires um to wait 20 minutes.

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So unless you guys want to call it now, um I would recommend waiting for the 20 minutes, which we still have about six minutes left.

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Are we moving into the october meeting in champion.

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Yes, uh it's the second wednesday of the month would be on the 14th.

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Okay, yeah, I just um send a reminder because we today's meeting we got notified today, even though it's on a schedule you've got to spoil cynthia, you send us every friday. You send us a notification of the meeting.

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We didn't get anything last friday. No, but I mean you're doing a great job. You know just some of us have to be reminded. I'm old, if I don't get reminded I forget, but I had the meeting on because it's the regular schedule meeting on the second wednesday of the month, so I was okay, but uh just remind people for the next meeting, so we can add the quorum.

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Okay, are we out? Are we done? Mr.

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Ruskin that I certainly won't defer to the city attorney's office for ms galvan, I do want to mention- um I will get together with mrs reese. So that way we can set a time and maybe do a test run and be able to troubleshoot to ensure that you don't have the problem with the audio uh in the future.

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Right, okay, so I'm going to bug out of here, so I can go to dinner. Everybody want to go with me. No okay! No all right, I'm gonna check out is that okay.

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If we could wait the four minutes just to see, if, if other members log on, if not, then we can go, you can go ahead and call the meeting that it was canceled.

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It's 5 50, which is 20 minutes after the posted time. A quorum failed to materialize, so mrs uh cynthia reese's staff liaison will be calling on uh this meeting will be postponed and mr reese will get in contact the commissioners to reschedule it for the regularly scheduled time in october, which would be the second wednesday of the month.

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Thank you have a good evening. Thank you. Okay,.

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