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Docket No. 19-698
 
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RE:
Request for an advisory opinion from the Director of the St. Mary Parish Library System (pop. 54,650) as to whether the Library System can bank with a financial institution where one of the officers is an immediate family member of the business manager of the library.
Facts:
The St. Mary Parish Library Board of Control ("Library Board") is considering transferring all banking activities to First National Bank of Jeanerette. Ashton Gaither is employed by the Library Board as the Business Manager. Ms. Gaither will marry Robert Myers in October of 2019. Mr. Myers is an Assistant Vice-President of First National Bank of Jeanerette.
Law:
Prohibits a public servant and a legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, from receiving any thing of economic value for services rendered from a person who has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency.
Recommendations:
Adopt the proposed advisory opinion draft.
Assigned Attorney: Greg Thibodeaux
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-698 AO Draft _1- Champagne
2019-698 Request for Opinion