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Docket No. 16-1170
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion request from Bao Vu, an employee with the New Orleans Department of Public Works, regarding whether the post-employment restrictions would prevent him from performing design and construction engineering services with engineering firms who have contracts with the City of New Orleans after he retires.
Facts:
Bao Vu is a classified employee within a division of the Program and Project Management Department that is compensated only by the New Orleans City budget and only manages city/state funded projects. He supervise no employees. There is a separate division within the Program and Project Management Department that is composed of unclassified employees who manage only FEMA projects and are paid with a FEMA fund. He has assisted some FEMA project managers in the review of plans and special specifications, but has not had contact with their design consultants. He does not perform any design and construction engineering services in his position with the New Orleans Department of Public Works.
Law:
La. R.S. 42: 1121B(1) provides that 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 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.
Recommendations:
Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
Assigned Attorney: Brett Robinson
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2016-1170 Proposed Opinion
2016-1170- DPW Org Chart and Design EngrsList
2016-1170 Advisory Opinion Request