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From: Greg and LuAnne Pederson [glpederson969@msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:46 PM To: Bill Malinen Cc: Margaret Driscoll; dave@horsagerleadershipstudio.com Subject: Question about Ethics Training Hi Bill, As we discussed at our last Ethics Commission meeting, Dave Horsager and I have been working on the upcoming Ethics training. Our current plan, (which I believe Dave informed you of in an e-mail in March) is to have a smaller training session in approximately September 2010 and then do a more robust training in April 2011. This will allow us to both meet the requirement of training in calendar year 2010 and also move future training to April, which was a more desirable time of year. Our question for you at this point is whether we have any kind of a training budget? (We know that in the past one of the reasons we used the City Attorney for this was because it was included in their retainer fee.) The follow-on question is whether the City has any type of procurement process that we need to follow, such as going out for competitive bids or anything? What we would like to do for the September trai ning is to have a shorter breakfast meeting of maybe only an hour. We'd like to engage a speaker to talk about ethical conduct more broadly for 30-45 minutes of th at session and then use the remaining 15 or so minutes to refer everyone to the Rose ville Ethics Code. The referenc e to the Code would be in a more general than in the past and be framed in relation to the speaker's talk. That is, one way in which the City adheres to the broader ethical principles the participants just heard about is through its ethics code. We think this would freshen up the course by providing a different approach, but also fulfill our requirement to train on the Code. In thinking of speakers, Da ve mentioned Jerome Mayne http://maynefelon.com/, who was a mortgage broker here in MN. He was convic ted of fraud, spent time in prison and now speaks about ethics and fraud prevention. Da ve knows of him, thought his presentation was excellent and also thought that he could ge t him to speak for us at a fairly reasonable price. Along those lines, I remember a presentation I attended at a Continuing Legal Education seminar sponsored by the Office of Lawyers Professional Re sponsibility a few years ago where an attorney who was convicted of stealin g from his clients spoke. (If I remember correctly, he was required to give such talks periodically for free as part of his restitution.) His story was very interesting and has stayed with me; he talked about how there had never been a point where he "decided" to steal from his clients, but it started with a very little step, that led to another little step and then to bigger steps and eventually got out of control even as he tried to repay some of his first victims. And I think that experience is one that people can relate to or at least understand. I do not remember the speaker's name, but if we wanted to pursue this, maybe we could check with Mayor Klausing (who, as you know, works for the OLPR) to see if he woul d know how to arrange something like that. Please let us know what you think about our id eas, what we might have as far as budget, and what our next steps should be as far as looking into engaging on e of these individuals to speak.