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• STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> OF LOUD DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> ti�w \` LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> . \ P. O. BOX 4368 <br /> yBATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> (225)219-5600 <br /> ..o..••' FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> Tuesday, November 19, 2019 <br /> John A. Navy <br /> 117 Bordelone Drive <br /> Houma, Louisiana 70363 <br /> Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics <br /> Docket No. 2019-1012 <br /> Dear Mr. Navy: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics ("Board"), at its November 15, 2019 meeting, considered your <br /> request for an advisory opinion as to whether the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics <br /> ("Code")would prohibit you from providing job readiness training to Terrebonne High School <br /> Students while you are employed as a Guidance Counselor at Ellender High School. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You stated that you are currently employed as a Guidance Counselor at Ellender High School. <br /> You have a business named Navy Enterprises, LLC D/B/A Job Readiness Solution.You want to <br /> provide Job Readiness Training to students with disabilities who attend Terrebonne High <br /> School, where you are not employed. The program is funded by Louisiana Rehabilitation <br /> Services, for who you are a certified vendor. Your company, Job Readiness Solution, will <br /> provide an instructor to provide those services at Terrebonne High School. <br /> LAW <br /> La.R.S.42:1111C(1)(a) prohibits a public servant from receiving any thing of economic value <br /> for any service, the subject matter of which is devoted substantially to the responsibilities, <br /> programs, or operations of the agency of the public servant and in which the public servant <br /> has participated. <br /> La.R.S.42:1111C(2)(d)provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public <br /> servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive <br /> any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered,or to be rendered,to <br /> or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed <br /> for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such <br /> person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is <br /> seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public <br /> Page 1 of 2 <br /> Docket No.2019-1012 <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />