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Ethics Board Docket Na. 2024-393 Page 7 of 11 Ethics Adjudicatory Board may order the payment of penalties. Rec nalti not include, in addit lf of the amount of the economic advantage Vantage,pe to exceed one ha V. OPINION: It is the opinion of the Board that Danny Allen Hobgood,while he served as a member of the Town of 5laughter Board of Alderman,violated La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d� by virtue of his receipt of compensation for services rendered to John Daryl Pritchard and his companies, O & M Management Services, LLC, P Group L.L.C., and Feliciana Welders, Inc. while they had a contractual,business and/or financial relationship with the Town of Slaughter. As an elected member of the Town of Slaughter Board of Alderman, Danny Allen Hobgood,was a public servant as defined by R.S.42:1102(19).His agency, as defined by La.R.S. 42:1102(a), was the Town. As an elected official, Danny Allen Hobgood was prohibited from receiving a thing of economic value for services rendered to a person that has or was seeking to have a contractual, or other business or financial relationship with the Town. Therefore, Danny Allen Hobgood's receipt of compensation for services rendered to O &M Management Services, LLC, P Group L.L.C., and Feliciana Welders, Inc. while O & M Management Services, LLC, P Group L.L.C.,and Feliciana Welders,Inc.had contractual,business and/or financial relationships with the Town and while he was a member of the Town of Slaughter Board of Alderman violated La. R.S.42:1 ll 1C(2)(d). If this matter proceeded to a public hearing before the Ethics Adjudicatory Board, and the Ethics Adjudicatory Board £ound a violation of the Code of Governmental Ethics, the Ethics r Adjudicatory Board could impose a fine of up to $10,000 for each vioiation of the Code.Further, , �a'" �