Meetings
 
Louisiana Board of Ethics
 LaSalle Building
First Floor - Griffon Room
OCTOBER 20, 2011
1:00 PM
617 North 3rd Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Note: Meetings begin on October 20, 2011 and continue to October 21, 2011.

Executive Session
Consideration of complaints and reports deemed confidential pursuant to Section 1141 of the Code of Governmental Ethics.

Louisiana Board of Ethics
LaSalle Building
First Floor - LaBelle Room
OCTOBER 21, 2011
9:00 AM
617 North 3rd Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

GENERAL
Appearances
G1. Docket No. 11-541
Appearance in connection with a second request for reconsideration of a waiver request of Kenneth Thompson regarding a $550 late fee for filing his candidate personal financial disclosure statement 11 days late
G2. Docket No. 11-645
Appearance in connection with a second request for reconsideration of a waiver request of Charles Mayeux, Jr. regarding a $1,500 late fee assessed for filing his candidate personal financial disclosure statement 72 days late.
G3. Docket No. 11-1209
Advisory opinion regarding the applicability of the post employment restrictions to Mattie Ann Fincher Coxe, the former Environmental Impact Manager, for the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency.
G4. Docket No. 11-1259
Advisory opinion regarding employees, officers, directors, owners or others associated with a governmental or private ambulance provider and members of the LAA Board of Directors being appointed to the Statewide Ambulance Service District Board of Commissioners.
Consent Agenda and Consent Opinions
G5. Docket No. 09-959
Proposed consent opinion regarding Craig Matthews, a St. Mary Parish Councilman, being employed with a company that has a lease with St. Mary Parish.
G6. Docket No. 11-154
Advisory opinion request from Daisy F. Slan regarding a disqualification plan for the hiring of Jerry O. Payne as principal of the St. Helena Central High School.
G7. Docket No. 11-748
Consideration of the Judgment of Dismissal a lawsuit filed by a former candidate, Vincent Castillo, against the Ethics Board.
G8. Docket No. 11-1213
Request for an advisory opinion as to whether Jimmie Husser, the current Treasurer for the Loranger Volunteer Fire Department, may continue to conduct business with the Fire Department through his business Husser's City Glass.
G9. Docket No. 11-1296
Advisory opinion as to whether Fred Wherland may obtain employment as a hearing representative/employer advocate in the same type of hearings he presided over as an administrative law judge.
G10. Docket No. 11-1297
Request for an advisory opinion regarding the dual board memberships of Ann Smith on the Board of Supervisors at Southern University and the Tangipahoa School Board.
G11. Docket No. 11-1300
Advisory opinion regarding whether Janet Beavers, who is the Office Manager for the Springhill Office of Motor Vehicles, may apply to the Office of Motor Vehicles to open an auto title company and public tag agency.
G12. Docket No. 11-1304
Advisory opinion regarding Mark J. LeBlanc, the Assistant Public Works Director for Capitol Improvements for the City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge, may accept a part-time position with the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS).
G13. Docket No. 11-1305
Advisory opinion regarding whether an alderman for the Town of Haughton, Larry Small, may continue to work for a company, Louisiana Machinery Co. LLC, if he runs for Bossier Parish Police Jury and the company currently does business with the Town and the Parish.
G14. Docket No. 11-1307
Advisory opinion regarding the application of the post-employment restrictions to Shelton Evans, a former employee of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
G15. Docket No. 11-1314
An advisory opinion regarding whether Arnie Fielkow, New Orleans City Councilman, may use campaign funds to make a restricted donation to a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity.
G16. Docket No. 11-1315
Advisory opinion regarding whether the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF) or The Water Institute of the Gulf's Delta (the "Water Institute") may pay for the travel expenses of a proposed delegation to The Netherlands to study the possibility of creating a new coastal research center for Louisiana.
G17. Docket No. 11-1330
Advisory opinion regarding a member of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board, Edward Barham, continuing to allow use of office space to a potential professor of the Technical College System.
G18. Docket No. 11-1331
Advisory opinion regarding whether individual family members of a candidate may individually contribute the maximum contribution to a campaign where the family members also own a partnership and the partnership wants to make a contribution to the same campaign.
G19. Docket No. 11-1332
Advisory opinion regarding Councilman Larry Rolling of the Covington City Council and the limitations on his business which has previously had business relationship with the City of Covington.
G20. Docket No. 11-1341
Advisory opinion regarding whether a faculty member of Northwestern State University may serve on the Keep Louisiana Beautiful Board.
G21. Docket No. 11-1353
Advisory opinion regarding whether a company owned by an employee of the New Orleans Office of Community Development may contract with the New Orleans Hornets and the New Orleans Recreation Department.
G22. Docket No. 11-1356
Advisory regarding whether the daughter of Kathy Blakenship, the Deputy Undersecretary for the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, may contract with the Fast Start program.
G23. Docket No. 11-1379
Advisory opinion regarding whether a violation of the Code of Ethics exists when the wife of a candidate for St. Charles Parish Council, Michael Dawson, has an interest in a company that does business with St. Charles Parish.
Disclosure Reports
G24. Docket No. 11-1408
Notice of disclosure reports filed with the Board during September 2011.
Regular Business
G25. Docket No. MINUTES
G26. Docket No. 10-294
Consideration of an Order regarding Tiffany Foxworth, a candidate for East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council, in the October 4, 2008 election, who failed to file her Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report by February 17, 2010.
G27. Docket No. 11-936
Reconsideration of a request that the Board waive the $2,000 late fee assessed against Denise Holden, a candidate for Orleans Parish Council, in the February 6, 2010 election, whose Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 35 days late.
G28. Docket No. 11-1121
Reconsideration of a request that the Board waive the $1,000, $1,000, $400, $800, $1,000, $680, and $360 ($5,240 total) campaign finance late fees assessed against Gregory Young, a candidate for Caddo Parish Commissioner, in the April 2, 2011 election, whose 30-P, 10-P, (3) Specials, EDE-P, and 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports were filed 57, 37, 36, 32, 28, 17, and 9 days late.
G29. Docket No. 11-1124
Reconsideration of a request that the Board waive the $2,500 late fee assessed against Marie Williams, a candidate for Orleans Parish Juvenile Court Judge, Div. E in the February 6, 2010 election, whose Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 115 days late.
G30. Docket No. 11-1211
Request for an advisory opinion regarding whether Chris Piehler, Administrator of the Inspection Division of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, may receive payments related to a lease agreement.
G31.   WAIVER REQUESTS - LOBBYING
  Docket No. CHART
Lobbying Waiver Request Chart for October 2011 meeting.
  Docket No. 11-1376
Request that the Board waive the $200 late fee assessed against Robert Toepfer for failure to timely file his July 2011 Executive lobbying expenditure report.
  Docket No. 11-1377
Request that the Board waive the $50 late fee assessed against Charles Major for failure to timely file his July 2011 Executive lobbying expenditure report.
G32.   WAIVER REQUESTS - PERSONAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
  Docket No. CHART
Personal Financial Disclosure Waiver Chart for October 2011
  Docket No. 11-1031
Waiver request submitted by Cyndi Nguyen regarding a $2,500 late fee assessed for filing her amended 2008 Tier 2 personal financial disclosure statement 211 days late.
  Docket No. 11-1352
Waiver request submitted by Tahira Abdul-Rahman regarding a $1,500 late fee assessed for filing her 2009 Tier 2.1 personal financial disclosure statement 86 days late.