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Advisory opinion request regarding whether Belinda Little-Wood, the Executive Director of the Naval Support Activity New Orleans Advisory Task Force, may seek employment opportunities with contractors selected to perform work on the Base Realignment and Closure project. |
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For the past seven years, Belinda Little-Wood has served as the Executive Director of the Naval Support Activity New Orleans Advisory Task Force, a board created by the Mayor of New Orleans to help with the Base Realignment and Closure process announced in 2005 by the Department of Defense. Specifically, she led the closure process of the Naval Support Activity Facility located in New Orleans. The Task Force was established providing the Task Force the authority to develop and make final recommendations to the Mayor and City Council for a base redevelopment plan and an economic adjustment program to assist impacted workers and businesses.
All funding for Ms. Little-Wood's position as well as her Program Manager was provided through a grant from the Office of Economic Adjustment, a division of the Department of Defense. The grant will expire on June 30, 2014. Upon the expiration of the grant on June 30, 2014, Ms. Little-Wood's position as well as her Program Manager's position will cease to exist.
Ms. Little-Wood is requesting the opinion on behalf of herself and staff as to future employment opportunities when their positions cease to exist. Particularly, is Ms. Little-Wood and her staff prohibited from seeking employment with contractors chosen to work on the Base Realignment and Closure Process.
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La. R.S. 42:1121A(1) provides no former agency head or elected official shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected public official serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that former agency or render any service on a contractual basis to or for such agency.
La. R.S. 42:1121B provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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