| Advisory opinion regarding whether Tena Drost, the accounts payable clerk for the City of Sulphur, may accept a part-time job with Workforce Medical Center, which has a contract with the City of Sulphur. |
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Tena Drost has been the accounts payable clerk with the City of Sulphur for 17 years. The City of Sulphur has a contract with Workforce Medical Center to perform various services for the city that are authorized by the HR Department. Checks that are issued by Ms. Drost to Workforce Medical Center are either approved with a purchase order through the City's software system or direct requests from the HR Department or the Finance Director. Once the paperwork is given to Ms. Drost, Mr. Drost processes the checks for the Mayor's review and signature.
Ms. Drost would like to accept part-time employment with Workforce Medical Center to do billing on another contract it has with another company, not for the City of Sulphur.
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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 any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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