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behavioral,emotional,academic,and social problems,while also building on protective factors by improving family relationships, parenting skills, and youth social and life skills. The City's grant proposal was approved for a one-year project term, starting April 1, 2025, and ending March 31, 2026,and an approved proposed budget totaling$82,740,including$49,060 for personnel salaries. From May 5, 2025, through September 26, 2025, Nicole Gray worked a total of fifty (50) hours outside of her normal working hours and official duties on the SFP project. Nicole Gray performed the following services for the SCEI and SFP grant projects that are outside of her normal working hours and official duties as the Community Outreach and Grants Manager, which were development of scripts for promotional videos, curriculum development, boot camp hoinework assignments, business plan development, policy development for city-wide adoption, coordination with consultants, invoice management, and recruitment of program participants. You ask whether Nicole Gray can receive additional compensation from the City's grant funds for work she performed on the SCEI and SFP projects that is outside of her normal working hours and official duties, when she wrote the grant proposals that explicitly included a budgeted amount of grant funds for program-related work. LAw La. R.S. 42:1111C(1)(a): No public servant shall receive any thing of economic value for any service, the subject matter of which is devoted substantially to the responsibilities, programs, or � operations of the agency of the public servant and in which the public servant has participated. La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a)(vi) defines "agency" for public servants of political subdivisions to mean the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity. La.R.S.42:1102(15)defines "participate"to mean to take part in or to have or share responsibility for action of a governmental entity or a proceeding, personally, as a public servant of the bovernmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act or perform a duty. La. R.S. 42:1102(18)(a) defines"public employee" to mean anyone,whether compensated or not, who is: (i) An administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office. (ii) Appointed by any elected official when acting in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof, either as a member of an agency, or as an employee thereof. (iii) Engaged in the performance of a governmental function. (iv) Under the supervision or authority of an elected official or another employee of the govenunental entity. La. R.S. 42:1102(19) defines "public servant" to mean a public employee or an elected official. Page 2 of 3 (BD 2025-489)