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Agenda Item
Docket No. 18-677
 
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RE:
Request for approval of Disqualification Plan regarding Joseph Tyler and Willie Pickney with the Opelousas Housing Authority.
Facts:
Joseph Tyler is the Father-in-Law of Willie Pickney and has been employed by the Opelousas Housing Authority (OHA) since 1987 in the Maintenance Department. Willie Pickney was hired by OHA on September 22, 2009 as a Maintenance Repairer 2. At the time of his hire, Mitchell Green served as the Maintenance Supervisor over Willie Pickney.


On October 11, 2013, Mitchell Green retired, and Joseph Tyler assumed the role of Maintenance Supervisor/Superintendent/Foreman over the entire maintenance department.

Law:
La. R.S. 42:1119A states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.

La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.

La. R.S. 42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code.

Recommendations:
Approve the disqualification plan.
Assigned Attorney: David Bordelon
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2018-677 - DQ Plan Approval Draft
2018-677- Disqualification Plan
2018-677- DQ Plan Confirmation