. -- name is david kerr. we filed the conflicts of interest report with the ethics commission and. we found the health director had collected over $30,000 from a city contractor named health management associates. at the same time, help manage and associates had received a hundred thousand dollars no-bid contract from the health department. after one most -- month the ethics commission sent are complete to the d.a.'s office and city attorney, and then they stopped looking at it. meanwhile, i was terminated. i then filed a whistle-low or retaliation complaint and was told to get a lawyer. after nine months, the d a decline to press criminal charges and referred the criminal complaint back to ethics that have not done nothing. they told us our policy is not to investigate it the d.a. is involved. i said ok, show me a copy of the policy. there was no record responsive to my request. it was just what they were doing. two years after we filed the complaint remains under investigation. the sleeping watchdog moniker is appropriate the ethics commission is either unable or unwilling to act