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Ethics Commission Meeting Minutes Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Page 4 1 c. Sherry Sanders, 363 S McCarron's Blvd. 2 Ms. Sanders agreed with the comments of previous speakers, noting she had per- 3 sonally seen unbecoming behavior at City Hall and other places with those repre- 4 senting the City, making this an important thing to take on. 5 6 d. Lisa McCormick, Wheeler Street 7 In her personal review of the charge from the City Council to the Ethics Commis- 8 sion, Ms. McCormick expressed her disagreement in its reading, opining it would 9 fit well under their charge as she interpreted it, under "other duties and functions" 10 or in its charge to "conduct studies specifically directed by the City Council." 11 12 Ms. McCormick advised that her purpose in bringing this to the Commission's at- 13 tention is to provide thein with a heads-up that there were several residents active- 14 ly engaged with the City Council related to this issue. Ms. McCormicic further 15 noted that she had also been actively engaged with community engagement ef- 16 forts, which resulted in her forming a neighborhood association. Ms. McCormick 17 stated she saw this as a way to give bacic to her cormnunity, and as an attorney by 18 background involved in collaborative approaches or alteinative dispute resolution 19 versus litigation, she was it as a way to further that collaborative approach in the 2 0 community. 21 22 In reference to her previous responses during Ms. Ramundt's comments, Ms. 23 McCormick noted she had brought this to the City Council's attention on two dif- 24 ferent opportunities. Ms. McCormick noted that one time was during public 25 comment directly in response to the City Council's priority policy planning doc- 26 ument discussion specific to the community engagement priority they identified. 27 As an attorney, Ms. McCormick stated that people often brought issues to her at- 28 tention for input, using Ms. Hilden's recent incident. Upon looking into it further, 29 Ms. McCormick stated her disappointment with what she'd heard, especially giv- 30 en the City Council's comments at their strategic planning retreat in February and 31 apparent determination by the City Council and staff to move forward toward 32 more customer intimacy or better public relations in the community. However, 33 after this recent incident, Ms. McCormick stated that she realized she had no as- 34 surance to offer that people will be treated well without a complaint process 35 and/or policy in place and no action taken unless corroborating evidence by 100% 36 of the witnesses or other conclusive evidence was available. 37 38 Based on her conversation with Mayor Roe, Ms. McCormick stated that if she en- 39 couraged people to participate, she couldn't assure they would be treated with re- 40 spect. Since that isn't always the case, Ms. McCormick opined something was 41 wrong, causing her to be careful when inviting citizen participation or involve- 42 ment on a task force and hesitating to do so until she had some assurances in place 43 that people will be treated respectfully. Unless they were already well-seasoned, 44 Ms. McCormick expressed her hesitation to encourage their involvement, opining