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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> o DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> ;S LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> %�' rft hi v. P.O. BOX 4368 <br /> .1. ,1 . BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> C°0,p,,,E `' <br /> . (225)219-5600 <br /> FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> February 21, 2017 <br /> Bao D. Vu, P.E. <br /> 13257 Willowbrook Drive <br /> New Orleans, Louisiana <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2016-1170 <br /> Dear Mr. Vu: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its February 17,2017 Board meeting,considered your request for <br /> an advisory opinion regarding whether the post-employment restrictions would prevent you from <br /> performing design and construction engineering services with engineering firms who have contracts <br /> with the City of New Orleans after you retire from New Orleans Department of Public Works. You <br /> stated that you are a classified employee within a division of the Program and Project Management <br /> Department that is compensated only by the New Orleans City budget and only manages city/state <br /> funded projects. You supervise no employees. There is a separate division within the Program and <br /> Project Management Department that is composed of unclassified employees who manage only <br /> FEMA projects and are paid with a FEMA fund. You stated that you have assisted some FEMA <br /> project managers in the review of plans and special specifications, but have had not contact with <br /> their design consultants. You do not perform any design and construction engineering services in <br /> your position. <br /> The Board concluded, and instructed me to inform you, that the Louisiana Code of Governmental <br /> Ethics would not prohibit you from performing design and construction engineering services with <br /> engineering firms who have contracts on FEMA projects with the City of New Orleans in <br /> transactions in which you did not participate at any time while employed by the City of New Orleans, <br /> for two years from your last day of employment with the City of New Orleans.La.R.S.42: 1121 B(1) <br /> provides that no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination <br /> of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an <br /> appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at <br /> any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was <br /> formerly employed, or for a period of two years following termination of his public employment, <br /> render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term <br /> of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract,to, for, or <br /> on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed. <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />