QUESTION
Is it permissible for high-level public servants to directly hire family members without salary?
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Milton Williams stresses the need for specifics in evaluating the hiring of family members by high-level public servants without salary and asserts no preferential treatment is given.
- Williams emphasizes the importance of evaluating specific cases before forming an opinion.
- He mentions his reluctance to offer an opinion without all facts of a specific case.
- Williams assures that no preferential treatment has been given based on his experience on the board.
- The board maintains strict procedures to prevent and avoid the perception of unfair advantage or preferential treatment.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:21:02
In your opinion, or or let's say, in keeping with the spirit of chapter 68 for high level public servants to be able to directly hire family members for positions of influence so long as they are able to forego salaries.
0:21:19
And if so, doesn't this no salary accommodation benefit people who are independently wealthy or over people who have to work for
Milton Williams
0:21:28
a living.
0:21:29
So it would depend.
0:21:31
I would have to scare a specific case.
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I'm very leery or wary about giving, but forming an opinion without having all the facts in in front of me of a specific case.
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I I will say this, we the my experience on the board is that no one has given preferential treatment.
0:21:52
No one.
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Okay.
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And we as as a board, I can say this as
Adrienne E. Adams
0:21:57
a general matter, bend over backwards to make sure a, that doesn't happen, and nor could it be perceived that way.
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Okay.
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That's good to hear.
