2023-183 - Laserfiche WebLink

• Advise Parish on maintaining compliance with all applicable regulatory agency guidelines in accordance with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Budget Act Assist Parish in optimizing internal controls over financial reporting; • Assist Parish with monthly account reconciliations as needed; • Assist Parish with providing information to outside auditors as requested with advance notice; • Assist Parish with grant budget preparation when a local match is required from an operating budget mentioned above during the grant application process assist with creating an awarded grant budget that includes a local match and assist with amendments of grants with local matches; • Attend at least one 1 Police Jury Regular Meeting per month after 4:00pm, when written notice is provided within 24 hours; • Attend Finance Committee Meetings after 4:00pm when written notice is provided within 24 hours. The Parish shall make available all public and non-public financial information in real time to the you as the Financial Advisor. The Parish shall supply log in credentials unique to you for online banking,access of all accounts,as well as for accounting software.The Parish allows use of office equipment when you are called on site to assist staff. You ask whether there is any conflict if you remain employed at the bank while also contracting with the parish as Financial Advisor. LAw La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a)(i) defines "ate" to mean a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. La.R.S.42:1102(18)(a)defines "public employee"to mean anyone,whether compensated or not, who is: (i) An administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office. (ii) Appointed by any elected official when acting in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof, either as a member of an agency, or as an employee thereof. (iii) Engaged in the performance of a governmental function. (iv) Under the supervision or authority of an elected official or another employee of the governmental entity. La. R.S. 42:1102(19)defines"public servant"to mean a public employee or an elected official. La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive Page 2 of 3 (BD 2023-183)