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Docket No. 22-707
 
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RE:
Request to withdraw a disqualification plan submitted by La. Department of Transportation and Development( DOTD) regarding Jerry and Jake Dison.
Facts:
DOTD initially submitted a request to approve a disqualification plan involving Jerry and Jake Dison. However, since the submission, DOTD has made changes to District 4 to remove any potential participation issues for the immediate family members. DOTD moved Jerry Dison's (Father) position from reporting directly to the Mechanic Supervisor A position, Jake Dison (his son), to now directly reporting to Robert Hammond, the Mechanic Supervisor B position. Such move removes any pay, performance evaluation, promotion, leave, or any supervisory decisions from the Mechanic Supervisor A position to avoid any violations of the Code.

With these changes, DOTD now requests their submission of a disqualification plan be withdrawn as moot.


Law:
La. R.S. 42:1119A states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.

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.

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.


Recommendations:
Allow withdrawal of disqualification plan.
Assigned Attorney: Suzanne Mooney
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2022-707- Requesst to withdraw as moot