| Advisory opinion request regarding post-employment restrictions that would apply to Gregory Mattson II as a former staff engineer for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. |
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Gregory Mattson II stated that he was was employed by CPRA from June 30, 2014 until April 12, 2019 as a staff engineer in the Engineering Division. His role at CPRA as a staff engineer included the following design engineering duties: (1) helping select marsh creation polygons and borrow area polygons for marsh creation projects; (2) conducting 30% and 95% design milestone meetings at which an engineering report would be delivered and a conference held to present the report and allow feedback from the public and federal agencies; (3) writing construction specifications for marsh creation projects; (4) writing scopes of work for surveying and geotechnical tasks that were planned and executed by consultants; and (5) installing geotechnical instrumentation for marsh creation projects and providing data from instruments to consultants for analyses. Mr. Mattson did not have any direct supervision over CPRA employees, nor did he manage any tasks or contracts.
On April 15, 2019, Mr. Mattson began employment with S&ME, Inc. as a project engineer providing geotechnical design services. His role at S&ME, Inc. as a project engineer includes performing geotechnical analyses, reviewing and processing lab test results, soil boring data and cone penetrometer data, writing geotechnical data and engineering reports, writing and reviewing geotechnical proposals, and analyses of geotechnical instrumentation data. Mr. Mattson did not perform any of these services while he was employed at CPRA.
S&ME, Inc. is currently providing geotechnical services to CPRA on the Bayou La Loutre Ridge Restoration and Marsh Creation project. Mr. Mattson did not participate in the project in any capacity while employed by CPRA. He would like to perform geotechnical engineering services for this project as a project engineer for S&ME, Inc. Mr. Mattson also inquired as to whether he would be allowed to perform geotechnical engineering services on any future CPRA projects in which he did not participate in any capacity while employed by CPRA.
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Section 1121B of the Ethics Code prohibits a former public employee, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, from assisting another person, for compensation, in a transaction involving the agency of the former public employee, in which the public employee participated at any time during his public employment. Additionally, Section 1121B prohibits a former public employee, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, from rendering the same service which he rendered during his public employment on a contractual basis to, for, or on behalf of his former agency.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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