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Home My WebLink About3rd Quarter 2024 INDEX State Ethics Commission Quarterly Rulings for Third Quarter 2024 ADVICES (Ethics): 24-546 (Wright): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for a new employer, Pew Charitable Trusts, following termination of your employment as the Director of Data and Policy for the Office of Economic Opportunity within the Commerce Department of the City of Philadelphia (“City”). 24-547 (Thompson): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for an engineering consulting firm following termination of your employment as a Civil Engineer – Transportation with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”). 24-547-S (Thomson): Re: Whether, during the first year following termination of your employment as a Civil Engineer — Transportation with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”), Section 1103(g) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(g), would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon you with regard to your name appearing on invoices that a municipal project sponsor would submit to PennDOT for processing. 24-548 (Smith): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you following termination of your employment as the Director of the Bureau of Financial Management and Program Support in the Office of Developmental Programs within the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (“Department of Human Services”). 24-549 (Guiddy): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would prohibit an individual employed as the - 1 - Westmoreland County (“County”) Parks and Recreation Director, who also serves as a Member and President of the Board of Directors of the Regional Trail Corporation, from providing Executive Director services to the Regional Trail Corporation either: (1) in his capacity as the County Parks and Recreation Director pursuant to the terms of a written cooperation agreement between the County and the Regional Trail Corporation; or (2) in the capacity of an employee of the Regional Trail Corporation. 24-550 (Gerard): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for your new employer, the Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, following termination of your employment as a Digital Media Specialist with the Democratic Caucus of the Pennsylvania Senate. 24-551 (Laird): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon a business owned by an individual serving as the District Manager of the Armstrong Conservation District and her husband with regard to doing concrete work on Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program projects for farmers. 24-552 : Re: Whether, pursuant to Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), a township supervisor, whose \[Relative\] is employed part-time with a company that operates \[Various Facilities\] in the township, would have a conflict of interest with regard to participating in discussions, votes, or other actions of the township board of supervisors pertaining to land development matters involving or affecting the company. 24-553 (Helfrich): Re: Whether, pursuant to Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), you would have a conflict of interest with regard to using your public position as Mayor of the City of York (“City”) to raise funds that would be directed to a nonprofit corporation organized by the City for the purpose of working to reduce group/gang-related violence, where you as the City - 2 - Mayor would serve on the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation. 24-554 (Gelsinger): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon an individual who owns and operates a gym, who also serves as a school director for a school district, with regard to providing a training program to approximately fifteen middle school students of the school district, where: (1) the school district would transport the students to the gym at no additional cost to the school district; (2) the gym would provide training to the students for approximately one and a half hours, one day per week, for six to nine weeks; (3) the school district would provide teachers to chaperone the students; (4) parents of the students would be charged a fee that would allow the gym to cover costs associated with the training program and make a small profit margin; and (5) the students would be picked up by their parents or other appropriate adults at the end of the training day. 24-555 : Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon an individual serving as a Member of \[the Governing Body\] of the \[Name of School District\] (“the School District”), who in a private capacity is employed as \[the Position\] of \[the Organization\], with regard to participating in deliberations, votes, or other official actions of \[the Governing Body\] related to various entities and individuals that she or \[the Organization\] interact with professionally. 24-556 : Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon either of two individuals serving as township supervisors, one of whom (“Individual One”) is the \[Position\] and \[Officer\] of one fire company (“Fire Company One”) and one of whom (“Individual Two”) is a member of another fire company (“Fire Company Two”) and its \[Unit\], with regard to voting on \[a Matter That Would Financially Impact\] Fire Company One and Fire Company Two. - 3 - 24-557 (Stine): Re: Whether an individual would have a conflict of interest under Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), with regard to performing the duties of her position as a Member of the Heidelberg Township Park and Recreation Board as a result of her service as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Heidelberg Township Recreation Association. 24-558 (Stoops): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you following termination of your employment as an Emergency Management Specialist/the State Voluntary Agency Liaison for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (“PEMA”). 24-559 : Re: Whether an individual serving as the \[Position\] of the \[Office\] of the \[Commonwealth Agency\], whose husband is employed with \[Name of Corporation\] (“the Corporation”), would have a conflict of interest pursuant to Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), with regard to participating in direct interactions with representatives of the Corporation to discuss any concerns or suggestions that the Corporation might have with regard to legislative matters. 24-560 (Gelsinger): Re: Whether, pursuant to Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), a School Director for the South Western School District (“School District”) would have a conflict of interest with regard to participating in negotiations pertaining to a new labor contract between the School District and the collective bargaining unit for the School District’s teachers, where the School Director’s wife is employed as a teacher with the School District and is a member of the teachers’ collective bargaining unit. 24-561 (Cohen): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon an individual serving as a Member of the Ethics Hearing Board of the City of Pittsburgh, who in a private capacity is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University’s - 4 - Tepper School of Business, with regard to accepting payment for speeches given in her private capacity on topics such as honesty, morality, and other group psychology dynamics. 24-562 (Bonacci): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for an engineering firm following termination of your employment as a Transportation Construction Manager 2 with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”). 24-563 (Paul): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would prohibit an individual employed as an Information Technology Executive 4 with the Office of Information Technology within the Governor’s Office of Administration from serving in a volunteer position as the Director of Sponsorship for the Pride Festival of Central Pennsylvania. 24-564 (Moore): Re: Whether, pursuant to Section 1103(a) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(a), either of two individuals serving as township supervisors would have a conflict of interest with regard to participating in discussions or votes of the township board of supervisors on two ordinances that would affect how oil and gas development may take place in the township, where: (1) one of the individuals receives income from leasing property in the township to a natural gas producer; and (2) the other individual has three stepbrothers who receive income from leasing properties in the township to the same natural gas producer. 24-565 (VanderKam): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon the members of the board of a municipal authority, who are considering utilizing a particular corporation’s wastewater treatment technology for a new wastewater treatment plant, with regard to accepting an offer from the corporation to cover the travel costs associated with the members’ attendance at a complimentary seminar featuring the corporation’s wastewater treatment technology. - 5 - ORDERS (Ethics): 1836 (Zimmer): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission 1837 (Allgeier): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission 1838 (Bartnicki): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission 1839 (Imes): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission S-ORDERS (Ethics): 785-S (Brooks): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 798-S (Caraway): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 799-S (Rivera): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 800-S (Miller): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. - 6 - 801-S (Nauman): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 802-S (Abodalo): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 803-S (Stahl): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 804-S (Miller): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 805-S (Flowers): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 806-S (Ezekoye): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. - 7 - 807-S (Gonzalez): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 808-S (Damon): Re: This is a final adjudication of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. - 8 -