| Disqualification Plan request from Nicholls State University ("NSU") to approve a plan removing Dr. Quenton Fontenot, Head of the Biological Sciences Department (the "Department"), from participating in matters involving his wife, Dr. Allyse Ferrara, who is a faculty member in the Department. |
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Dr. Quenton Fontenot has been employed with NSU in the Department since 2002, and became head of the Department in August 2017. Dr. Fontenot's wife, Dr. Allyse Ferrara, has been employed as a faculty member in the Department since 2002. NSU has submitted a plan to avoid any potential violation of La. R.S. 42:1112 whereby Dr. Fontenot would recuse himself from participating in any transaction involving Dr. Ferrara, including but not limited to: employment requisitions, promotional advancements or pay changes, performance evaluations, approval of timesheets, approval of travel and reimbursements, approval of purchase requisitions, approval of fundraising, approval of grant documents and funds, and any other transactions in which Dr. Ferrara would have a substantial economic interest. In these matters, Dr. John Doucet, Dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology, will function as the initiator or approver.
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La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest.
La. R.S. 42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
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Adopt proposed disqualification plan.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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