QUESTION
How can the agency enhance its preventative functions, including education and training?
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Amy Millard emphasizes the importance of education, training, and publicity about conflicts but hesitates to suggest specific improvements without direct experience with the Conflicts of Interest Board.
- Millard agrees that education, training, and raising awareness about conflicts are crucial.
- She highlights that there's no substitute for actual experience and that she lacks firsthand experience with the board.
- Millard expresses her intention to share ideas and suggest improvements once she has gained real-time experience with the board.
- This response comes in light of questions about enhancing the agency's preventative functions for the benefit of city employees.
Keith Powers
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In your research and getting prepared for this hearing, Is there anything that you see at the agency today?
0:47:15
And this isn't a criticism of your your colleague.
0:47:17
I hope you know, and I know he won't take it this way.
0:47:19
But any way that you see that the agency can be improving to preventative function, whether it's education training, other measures of tools or in your experience.
0:47:30
In your past experience, you've seen ways to make sure that the hundreds of thousands of city employees that are impacted by this, by by you as a at this agency, if you are if you are appointed, are not getting to that point in time, understand clearly the law are trained in it, trained in best practices, know exactly how to reach out to the confidential board have confidence to reach out to the the confident interest board, if needed, things like that, where we might wanna make enhancements or improvements to those those pre penalty parts of the job?
Amy Millard
0:48:07
Sure.
0:48:08
Well, I agree with you a 100% that education and training and publicity about conflicts, publicity about education and training are critical, absolutely critical.
0:48:29
There's no substitute for actual experience.
0:48:33
And so if I am confirmed, it will be my first experience with the board.
0:48:41
And so I am not I would be hesitant to make suggestions for changes and improvements to something that I do not yet have firsthand experience with.
0:48:58
I have experience with training and with education, and I would look forward to making suggestions and sharing ideas once I have real time experience with the board.
Keith Powers
0:49:13
Okay.
