Tentative Agenda
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-5
May 9, 2008
RE: 1) May executive director accept organization’s offer to
pay for attendance at conference?
2) May agency accept travel and hotel accommodations from testing
service for staff member to attend conference?
DECISION: 1) Dissemination of information may be accepted if no registration
fee is charged others to attend; however, travel expenses may not
be accepted.
2) No.
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-6
May 9, 2008
RE: May employee accept scholarship if donators to scholarship
fund are not doing business with the employee’s state agency?
DECISION: Yes.
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-7
May 9, 2008
RE: May Department of Revenue employees serve as ex-officio members of Kentucky Farm Bureau Tax Advisory Committee?
DECISION: Yes, as long as non-compensated and non-voting.
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-8
May 9, 2008
RE: Does employee’s volunteer activity present a conflict?
DECISION: No.
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-9
May 9, 2008
RE: Does employee’s involvement in matters of previous clients create conflict of interest?
DECISION: No, provided employee abstains from involvement of former clients for a reasonable period of time.
DRAFT ADVISORY OPINION 08-11
May 9, 2008
RE: Is there an ethical concern for the Transportation Cabinet Secretary to have an ownership interest in property adjacent or near to a priority road project?
DECISION: No, not when the ownership interest predates the identification of the road project as a priority and the Secretary abstains, in writing, from any decision that could affect that property.