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Ethics Commission Advisory Opinion No. 229 Page 3 • A public employee shall be in such status on days on which he performs no services as well as days on which he performs services. The termination of any particular term of employment of a public employee shall take effect on the day the termination is clearly evidenced. The Commission has considered similar questions in other instances. In June, 1981, the Commission rendered an advisory opinion concerning whether members of Governor David C. Treen's "Special Council on Governmental Review and Efficiency" would be public servants subject to the Code of Governmental Ethics. The Special Council on Governmental Review and Efficiency had been created by Governor Treen pursuant to executive order, and persons appointed to it by him were charged with advisory responsibilities not unlike those anticipated to be performed by Governor -Elect Buddy Roemer's volunteers. The Ethics Commission concluded that members of the Special • Council would be public servants as that term is defined ill the Code of Governmental Ethics, and that they were, therefore, subject to the Code. Four years later, in 1985, the Commission rendered the same opinion with regard to the "Committee of One Hundred," a committee established by Governor Edwin Edwards pursuant to executive order and charged with similar responsibilities. The Commission concluded that the prior opinions rendered with respect to Governor Treen's committee were applicable. The question submitted by Governor -Elect Roemer, however, is distinguishable for one critical reason: the Special Council on Governmental Review and Efficiency and the Committee of One Hundred were created by the Governor and their members were selected by gubernatorial appointment; the volunteers that may assist Governor -Elect Roemer are not. Buddy Roemer will not be Governor of the State of Louisiana until his inauguration on March 14, • 1988. II16 I^!