When I brought of the ethics and conflict of interest issues with Jennings at a commission meeting earlier this year they actually had to put the meeting on hold for 30 minutes while they conferred over a page in the commission ethics handbook that I had handed out as part of my presentation.

Page 5 of the “Ethics Handbook for Washington Board and Commission Members gives an overview on objectivity. In that handbook it states:

•A conflict of interest occurs when you have a private interest that may benefit from your actions, or when a private interest could interfere with official duties.
•An interest need not be financial to create a conflict of interest.
•Most conflicts result from the exercise of discretionary authority.

They chose to ignore ethics for some reason, which is something I will bring up again.