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ATTORNEY COLLINS CONTINUED THAT THERE ARE TWO SITUATIONS - IF <br />YOU HAVE A CONFLICT AND VOTE, THEN YOU MUST FILE; IF YOU HAVE A CONFLICT <br />AND ABSTAIN, YOU MUST FILE. HE NOTED THAT OFFICIALDOM NOW APPEARS TO <br />REALIZE THAT INDIRECT CONFLICTS DO EXIST AND HAVE CONSTRUED THIS TO SAY <br />YOU MAY ABSTAIN, BUT YOU NEED NOT FILE A STATEMENT. THE ATTORNEY NOTED <br />THAT HE NOW FEELS ABSTENTION SHOULD OCCUR ONLY IN CASES WHERE THERE IS <br />A DEFINITE CONFLICT. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED FO" THE RECORD THAT IT IS HIS OPINION <br />THAT COMMISSIONER SIEBERT'S SITUATION WAS INDIRECT; A CONFLICT DID NOT, <br />IN FACT, EXIST, AND HE DOES NOT HAVE TO FILE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST <br />STATEMENT, <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT COMMENTED THAT HE FEELS HE HIMSELF WAS <br />OVERZEALOUS IN EVER RAISING ANY QUESTION IN REGARD TO HIS SITUATION AS <br />HE HAS RESEARCHED THE RECORDS OF HIS COMPANY, AND NOW DOES NOT BELIEVE <br />THERE WAS EVER ANY CONFLICT, DIRECT OR INDIRECT. HE STATED THAT HE WILL <br />NOT FILE A CONFLICT. <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED IN RECORD TO THE BOARD'S POLICY ON CONFLICT <br />OF INTEREST WHICH IS MORE RESTRICTIVE THAN THE STATUTES IN THAT IT DOES <br />NOT ALLOW A COMMISSIONER TO VOTE WHEN HE HAS A CONFLICT, AND IT WAS <br />AGREED THERE DID NOT SEEM TO BE ANY PROBLEM ABOUT A DIRECT CONFLICT, ONLY <br />AN INDIRECT ONE. <br />.ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT THE BOARD HAD RECEIVED COPY OF A <br />LETTER WRITTEN BY SHERIFF JOYCE IN REGARD TO REVOCATION OF SOME DEPUTY <br />SHERIFF BONDS WHICH HE FELT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOY, <br />THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY MADE THE LETTER FROM SHERIFF .JOYCE DATED NOVEMBER <br />17, 1976, A PART OF THE MINUTES. <br />105 <br />DEC 11976 <br />eel 390 <br />