BER-82-4 Engineer A Multi-Role Review-Recommendation Non-Decision Boundary

O · Obligation Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#BER-82-4_Engineer_A_Multi-Role_Review-Recommendation_Non-Decision_Boundary
Properties
Instance of
Review-RecommendationNon-DecisionDual-RolePermissibilityBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Review-RecommendationNon-DecisionDual-RolePermissibilityBoundaryObligation
Case context
BER Case 82-4: Engineer A in full-time private practice retained by county and city for engineering roles, also serving as project administrator for airport authority and city block grant program, while retained as consultant by private firms to develop city and county project proposals.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (BER 82-4)
Obligation statement
Engineer A, serving simultaneously as county engineer, city engineer, airport authority project administrator, and city block grant administrator while also providing private consulting services, was obligated to ensure that his activities in public roles remained within the review-and-recommendation category rather than constituting final decisions on matters in which he had a private interest.
Temporal scope
Throughout all concurrent public and private engagements
Source Evidence
Source text
The Board found that Engineer A did not actually participate in 'decisions' with respect to services solicited or provided by him or his organization in private or public engineering practice but rather reviewed, recommended, formulated, and oversaw plans.

Text references
The Board found that Engineer A did not actually participate in 'decisions' with respect to services solicited or provided by him or his organization in private or public engineering practice but rather reviewed, recommended, formulated, and oversaw plans.
The Board found that his activities were within the meaning of the amended Code provisions and did not constitute 'decisions' under Section II.4.d.
Therefore the Board concluded that one who serves as both city and county engineer for a retainer fee may provide private engineering consulting services to the city and county.
TTL
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Metadata
Type
Individual
Last Updated
2026-05-28 16:27
Discovered in case
177
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00
First case
177
Generated
2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00
Attributed to
Case 177 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T09:35:05.780793
Generated by
ProEthica Case 177 Extraction