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Opinion Type
Advisory Opinion
Docket Number
2017-413
Requesting Party
Michael J. LeBlanc
Decision Date
6/16/2017
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Advisory opinion that a former Planning Manager for Lafayette Consolidated Governmenta (LCG) and Acadiana Planning Commission (APC) would not be prohibited by the Code of Governmental Ethics from contracting with the City of Broussard with respect to the transferring of federal funds through an existing project to another projects through the Department of Transportation and Development's Transportation Improvement Plan unless he worked on those projects while employed by the APC.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> DEPARTMENT OF STATE <br /> ERVICE <br /> • <br /> t4S LOUISIFNR BOOX436oeB ETHICS <br /> BATON21 <br /> ROUGE <br /> 1Ni119-5E40ra0 <br /> FAX (TTS 381.7271 <br /> I B00-042-€630 <br /> more ethics la go.. <br /> June 27, 2017 <br /> Michael J. LeBlanc <br /> 137 Femhill Avenue <br /> Lafayette, Louisiana 70506 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2017-413 <br /> Dear Mr. LeBlanc: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its June 16,2017 meeting,considered your request for an advisory <br /> opinion regarding the application of the post employment provisions in La. R.S. 42:1121 now that <br /> you have terminated your position as a Planning Manager for Lafayette Consolidated Government <br /> (LCG) and Acadiana Planning Commission (APC). You left this position on June 30, 2015. You <br /> subsequently were employed by the APC from July 2015 until July 2016. This occurred when your <br /> agency, the Lafayette Metropolitan Planning Organization, was transferred to the APC. You have <br /> been asked to work as a part-time consultant for the City of Broussard performing tasks that would <br /> be informed by your LCG and APC duties.You would perform project management specific projects <br /> for the City of Broussard. Specifically, you are being requested to transfer federal funds funneled <br /> through the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) from an existing <br /> project to another project as part of the Transportation Improvement Plan(TIP). You stated that you <br /> are familiar with the process but did not provide services to municipalities on actual budgeted funds <br /> for specific projects. Further,you stated that you would not be transferring funds from any existing <br /> project you designed or planned for either APC or LCG. <br /> Your duties as Planning Manager for the LCG included the supervision of one to four planners and <br /> draftsmen, who together worked on plans for the City of Lafayette and Lafayette Metropolitan <br /> Planning Area Plans which included the City of Broussard. However,you supervised no employees <br /> while employed by APC. You stated that you worked on system-wide plans without a specific <br /> reference to any one entity for location of future roadways and their costs, system-wide functional <br /> plans related to pedestrians, transit,and bikeways. You also worked on specific projects, including <br /> Ambassador Caffery Parkway South in the City of Broussard, all of which were related to design, <br /> rational sequence of activities, and estimated costs. You stated that you did not participate in the <br /> actual allocation or expenditures of funds for these projects. However, the only time you did <br /> administer funds and contracts was the Marais des Cannes Project located in the City of Scott and <br /> the unincorporated area of Lafayette Parish. You further stated that you have never tracked spending <br /> of specific roadway projects. <br /> AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />
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