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��,,, STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> oOt LOrtf DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> ¢=oN aus�P9 4. <br /> • <br /> ;; LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS* 14,' ;ilk P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> 'aa I BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> 'YF,oEo o (225)219-5600 <br /> FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> wwwethicsla.goy <br /> September 25, 2017 <br /> Mr. Brian Adams <br /> 2021 Woodchase Blvd. <br /> Baton Rouge,Louisiana 70808 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2017-770 <br /> Dear Mr. Adams: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its September 15, 2017 meeting, considered your request for an <br /> advisory opinion as to whether you may continue to be the Director for District and School <br /> Partnerships for the South Louisiana Region for Teach for America,Inc. (TFA), if you are elected <br /> to the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board in the October 2017 election while the School Board <br /> has a contract with TFA. You stated that you are a candidate for the East Baton Rouge Parish School <br /> Board in the October 2017 election. You are currently employed with TFA. You stated that your <br /> are employed as the Director for District and School Partnerships for the South Louisiana Region. <br /> East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is one of five districts along with various charter schools that <br /> have contracts with TFA. You stated that you present employment candidates to the districts and <br /> charter schools. If elected,you will no longer interact with or be a party to any decisions regarding <br /> TFA and the East Baton Rouge Parish Schools. <br /> In general,La.R.S.42:1111 C(2)(d)prohibits a public servant and a legal entity in which the public <br /> servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of 25%from receiving any thing of economic <br /> value for services rendered to or for any person during his public service, unless such services are <br /> neither performed for nor compensated by any person that has or is seeking to have a contractual, <br /> business or financial relationship with the public servant's agency. However,in Ethics Board Docket <br /> No. 82-02D the Board provided an exception to Section 1111C(2)(d) of the Code when a public <br /> servant works for a company and the following factors are met: (1)the employee must be a salaried <br /> or wage-earning employee; (2) the employee's salary must remain substantially unaffected by the <br /> contractual relationship; (3) the public servant must own less than a"controlling interest" in the <br /> company; and(4)the public servant must be neither an officer, director, trustee,nor partner in the <br /> company. <br /> The Board concluded,and instructed me to inform you,that the Code of Governmental Ethics would <br /> not prohibit you, while you serve as an elected member of the..East Baton Rouge Parish School <br /> Board, from providing compensated services to TFA at a time when TFA has a contractual <br /> relationship with the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board since you meet the exception in Ethics <br /> Board Docket No. 82-02D. <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />