| Request for approval of a disqualification plan from Fire Chief Michael Kimble, Baton Rouge Fire Department, relative to the employment of brothers, Jared Robertson and Jerome Robertson. |
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Jared Robertson was hired in 1995 by the Baton Rouge Fire Department as a Firefighter and he has been promoted and he has been serving in his current position as Assistant Chief of Special Services since December 2017. The agency head of Special Services is Scott Pertuis. As Assistant Chief of Special Services, Jared Robertson is responsible for supervising Fire Services and Supply Technicians. Jerome Robertson, the biological brother of Jared Robertson, has been employed with the Baton Rouge Fire Department since 1996 and currently serves as one of the Fire Services and Supply Technicians.
Fire Chief, Michael Kimble, has submitted a disqualification plan that indicates Jared Robertson will not supervise Jerome Robertson. In order to avoid any potential conflict, Chief Scott Pertuis, Chief of Special Services or Jeremy Spillman, Chief of Administration, have been assigned as Jerome Robertson's supervisor. Chief Pertuis is Jared Robertson's immediate supervisor.
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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. 42:1119A prohibits an immediate family member of an agency head from being employed in his agency.
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) allows for the continued employment of a public employee, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
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Approve the disqualification plan.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Greg Thibodeaux |
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