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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-196
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Diogo Tavares, a candidate for Member of School Board, District 9, Lafayette Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late.
Facts:
Diogo Tavares requests a waiver and states the following:


He ran for this position with very little capital backing and stretched his money and donated to his campaign. He handled all of his campaign responsibilities on his free time after working 12 to 14 hour days and continuing to volunteer in Scouting. He confused the filing time and is sorry for the late filing. He has filed all other documents timely.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $320
REPORTS DUE: October 2, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 10, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: $6,014.31 in Receipts; $4,374 in Expenditures; $2,781.60 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

Law:
18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.

18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.

Recommendations:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-196 - Staff Memo Diogo Tavares