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Agenda Item
Docket No. 24-504
 
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RE:
Request the Board waive the $280 campaign finance late fee assessed against Gnanse Nelson, an unsuccessful candidate for Council Member, District C, City of Slidell, St. Tammany Parish in the March 26, 2022 election, whose 2023 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was 7 days late.
Facts:
Gnanse Nelson is submitting a waiver request and states the following: She states that the untimely filing was an honest oversight with no ill intent, and she remedied it as soon as she caught the mistake. This has never happened before, and she can guarantee it will never happen again. Ms. Nelson would like to apologize.


Comments:
ELECTION: March 26, 2022
TYPES OF REPORT: 2023 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 7
ASSESSED FEE: $280.00
REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2024
REPORTS FILED: February 22, 2024
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $148.86 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.

OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE - PAID


3/26/2022 Election: 10-G (1 days late)- $40.00




Law:
18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.

Recommendations:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2024-503 - CF Waiver SUPP2023