| Advisory opinion request from Michele Steib regarding whether her company is permitted to enter into a services contract with another company that has a site control agreement with the Port of New Orleans while she is an employee of the Port of New Orleans. |
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Michele Steib is employed as an IT Engineer with the Port of New Orleans ("Port NOLA"). She also operates an independent IT consulting business through her company, MSITT, LLC. Ms. Steib would like to know whether she or her company is permitted to enter into a private IT consulting services contract with Spears Global, a company that currently has a site control agreement with Port NOLA, while she is a Port NOLA employee.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jessica Meiners |
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