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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-543
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $640 campaign finance late fee assessed against Chad Bordelon, a candidate for Mayor, City of Mandeville in the July 11, 2020 election, whose 2019 Annual campaign finance disclosure report was filed 16 days late.
Facts:
Chad Bordelon request a waiver and states the following:

He was not able to file the report due to complication of the COVID-19. His accountant was diagnosed with the disease and needed time off. His business was also closed due to this difficult time. Medical information was requested: Due 8/10/20.


Comments:
ELECTION: July 11, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 2019 ANNUAL
DAYS LATE: 16
ASSESSED FEE: $640
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2020
REPORTS FILED: March 5, 2020


REPORT ACTIVITY: $26,120.00 in Receipts; $16,863.05 in Expenditures; $9,256.95 Funds at 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: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-543 - CF Waiver Request Chad Bordelon ANN2019