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STATE OF LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE p�F LOUj% Of) ° S'9 LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS P.O.BOX 4368 1,!1441; BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 (225)219-5600 dw„nn FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.la.gov June 15, 2018 Jason Curole GHD Services, Inc. 5551 Corporate Boulevard, Ste.200 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 Re: Ethics Board Docket No.2018-519 Dear Mr. Curole: The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its June 15, 2018, meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion as to the applicability of any post-employment prohibitions found in Section 1121 of the Code of Governmental Ethics (Code) on you, a former employee of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and/or your employer, GHD Services, Inc. You provided that your current employer seeks to solicit and conduct business with your former agency, CPRA. You stated that GHD is an international engineering and environmental consulting company that performs coastal engineering and environmental work throughout the world GHD seeks to provide services to CPRA through both a professional services mechanism and a consulting services mechanism. You stated that you would not provide any service that you provided while you worked at CPRA on any project that you participated in as a CPRA employee while employed at GHD. You stated that you worked for CPRA from 2011 to2018. From 2011 to 2013, you were employed in CPRA's Operations Division in the Thibodaux Regional Office as a project monitor and from 2013 to 2018 in CPRA's Management Division as a project manager. You managed and monitored projects. You stated that you understand that the Code would prohibit you from assisting GHD in any of the projects that you participated in while employed at CPRA. The Board concluded, and instructed me to advise you that under the facts presented herein, Section 1121B of the Code would not prohibit you or GHD from providing services to CPRA through both a professional services mechanism and a consulting services mechanism. Section 1121B(1) prohibits a public servant, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, from assisting a person for compensation in a transaction in which he participated or from rendering any service which such former public employee rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract,to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.