ETHICS BOARD

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes ETHICS BOARD ANNIE WACKER, CHAIR, Robert Shelledy, Vice Chair Joanne Barndt, Patricia Hintz, and Bradley Kalscheur Staff Assistant, Molly Kuether-Steele, 286-2775 Fax: 286-3456, molly.kuether-steele@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liaison, Tea Norfolk, 286-8012, tea.norfolk@milwaukee.gov Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00 AM Room 303, City Hall 1. Roll call and approval of the minutes from the previous meeting. The meeting convened at 9:03 AM Mr. Shelldey was present via phone Individual also present: ACA Peter Block Mr. Kalscheur moved approval of the minutes, seconded by Ms. Barndt. There were no objections. Present: 4 - Wacker, Barndt, Shelledy, Kalscheur Excused: 1 - Hintz 2. The Board may convene into closed session to hear disciplinary matters and related information pursuant to s. 19.85(1)(b) and/or (f), Wis. Stats., and to consider and render confidential advice pursuant to s. 19.85(1)(h), Wis. Stats. Ms. Barndt moved to convene into closed session, seconded by Mr. Kalscheur. There were no objections. The Board convened into closed session at 9:04 AM. 3. The Board may then convene into open session as authorized by s. 19.85(2), Wis. Stats. Mr. Kalscheur moved to reconvene into open session, seconded by Ms. Barndt. There were no objections. The meeting reconvened into open session at 9:55 AM. Ms. Wacker stated the Board considered 3 requests for confidential opinions and will render written responses to the requestors. 4. Report from staff assistant relating to office activities of the previous month. Ms. Kuether-Steele stated 37 statement of economic interests are still outstanding. She provided a draft of the 2017 annual report that will be presented to the Judiciary & Legislative Committee on April 9th. There was discussion regarding changing "city employee" to "city employee/city official". Ms. Barndt moved approval of the annual repot as modified, seconded by Mr. Kalscheur. There were no objections. She asked the Board how they would like to proceed with the review of the Y footnotes in the Positions Ordinance. There was discussion regarding how to proceed with the review of City of Milwaukee Page 1 ETHICS BOARD Meeting Minutes March 20, 2018 the Y footnotes and Atty. Block will further research the issue. 5. Set next meeting date(s). The next meeting date was set for April 17th. The meeting adjourned at 10:22 AM Molly Kuether-Steele Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 2