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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 />