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Docket No. 17-747
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics would prohibit newly appointed Avoyelles Port. Commission member Bruce Coulon and/or his business, Coulon Electrical, from entering into contracts for electrical work with Brudd Construction Company and/or any present or future tenants of the Avoyelles Port. The population of Avoyelles Parish is 41,103.
Facts:
Advisory opinion request regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics would prohibit newly appointed Board member Bruce Coulon and/or Coulon Electrical, Mr. Coulon's electrical company, from entering into contracts for electrical work with Brudd Construction Company and/or any present or future tenants of the Avoyelles Port. Bruce Coulon is a licensed electrician and prior to his service on the Commission he performed work for Brudd Construction Company. Brudd Construction Company is a current tenant of the Avoyelles Port.
Law:
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) prohibits a public servant, or a legal entity in which the public servant exercises control, from receiving a thing of economic value for services rendered to any person who conducts operations or activities that are regulated by the public employee's agency or has or is seeking to obtain a business or financial relationship with the public employee's agency.
Recommendations:
Adopt draft advisory opinion.
Assigned Attorney: Suzanne Mooney
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2017-747- Draft Opinion (2)
2017-747 AOR