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��„ STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> �,� oF LOUisJ.,- DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> •4,°� 9 LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> .tea �„y: <br /> m 'I" y . P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> 11.J* BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> ... (225)219-5600 <br /> FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> April 16, 2019 <br /> Mr. Marshall Hevron <br /> Adams and Reese, LLP <br /> 701 Poydras Street <br /> Suite 4500 <br /> New Orleans, Louisiana 70139 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No.2019-326 <br /> Dear Mr. Hevron: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its April 12,2019 meeting,considered your request for an advisory <br /> opinion as to whether employees of Ochsner Medical Center ("Ochsner") may serve on the <br /> Discovery Health Sciences Charter School Board("Discovery")while Ochsner and Discovery have <br /> a partnership agreement. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You stated that the Discovery Health Sciences Academy is a charter school in Jefferson Parish. <br /> Discovery has a wait list with over 1,000 families seeking admission to the school. In order to meet <br /> this demand, Discovery intends to open a new campus to reach more students. Discovery's new <br /> campus will be located in Shrewsbury,which is an economically distressed neighborhood near the <br /> Ochsner Medical Center. Ochsner has a history of partnering with the neighborhood to help the <br /> community. <br /> Ochsner Health System is Louisiana's largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system. Ochsner <br /> intends to invest$10.4 million to finance and manage the construction of the new Discovery school <br /> campus; therefore, there will be no cost to the Jefferson Parish School Board. Ochsner will also <br /> assist in programs to enhance the educational experience for students in Discovery's health sciences <br /> curriculum. <br /> In furtherance of its commitment to the success of the school, employees of Ochsner seek to serve <br /> as members of the Discovery Charter School Board. Through this representation on the school <br /> board, Ochsner will be able to provide employees possessing expertise that would be particularly <br /> useful to a school with a science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) focus. The Ochsner <br /> employee board members would be salaried;however,their compensation would not be affected by <br /> their service on the Discovery school board or by the partnership between Ochsner and Discovery. <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />