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Guin hired Patricia Ann "Patsy" Forcier as his administrative assistant. At the time the wife of Ray Forcier of Shreveport, she has since been married to Billy Clapp of Ocala, [[Florida]]. Her father was the former  state Representative Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., a Democrat from Tallulah in Madison Parish.<ref>Edgar H. Lancaster obituary, ''The Monroe News-Star,''October 15, 2009.</ref> An  unlikely specialist on sewer matters, Forcier, who was barely thirty when she joined Guin's staff, proved invaluable to his brief tenure at the Shreveport Utilities Department. Forcier's unusual speciality for a young woman attracted national press attention.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57669453/|title=From Cancan to sewer lines|publisher=''San Bernardino County Sun''|author=Bonnie Davis|date=May 19, 1978|page=48|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref>​

Guin hired Patricia Ann "Patsy" Forcier as his administrative assistant. At the time the wife of Ray Forcier of Shreveport, she has since been married to Billy Clapp of Ocala, [[Florida]]. Her father was the former  state Representative Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., a Democrat from Tallulah in Madison Parish.<ref>Edgar H. Lancaster obituary, ''The Monroe News-Star,''October 15, 2009.</ref> An  unlikely specialist on sewer matters, Forcier, who was barely thirty when she joined Guin's staff, proved invaluable to his brief tenure at the Shreveport Utilities Department. Forcier's unusual speciality for a young woman attracted national press attention.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57669453/|title=From Cancan to sewer lines|publisher=''San Bernardino County Sun''|author=Bonnie Davis|date=May 19, 1978|page=48|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref>​

In 1977, Guin dismissed the municipal water superintendent Alfred Joseph Petrus (1920-2009) for alleged theft of city materials and the improper use of municipal employees. Petrus was first suspended by Commissioner Collins shortly before Collins left office. The suspension carried over into the Guin administration, pending a probe into the charges against Petrus. After a jury found Petrus not guilty of [[felony]] [[theft]], he applied to Guin for reinstatement. Guin, however, changed Petrus' suspension to outright dismissal because Petrus had allegedly used city employees to perform work at his private residence. Despite exoneration by the jury, Petrus failed in further appeals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19791394378So2d1016_11202.xml/PETRUS%20v.%20GUIN|title=Petrus v. Guin|date=December 3, 1979|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=July 24, 2014}}</ref> Petrus thereafter worked in the private sector became heavily involved in veterans and patriotic causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/22370499/alfred-joseph-petrus|title=Alfred Joseph Petrus|publisher=KTBS-TV|date=January 2009|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>Alfred Joseph Petrus was a son-in-law of two sheriffs in Grant Parish, [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]], who with a deputy was killed in the line of duty in 1936, and Nugent's widow and temporary successor, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent (1895-1976). The Nugents had eleven children, one of whom, Frances, was married to Petrus until his death in 2009.</ref>​

In 1977, Guin dismissed the municipal water superintendent Alfred Joseph Petrus (1920-2009) for alleged theft of city materials and the improper use of municipal employees. Petrus was first suspended by Commissioner Collins shortly before Collins left office. The suspension carried over into the Guin administration, pending a probe into the charges against Petrus. After a jury found Petrus not guilty of [[felony]] [[theft]], he applied to Guin for reinstatement. Guin, however, changed Petrus' suspension to outright dismissal because Petrus had allegedly used city employees to perform work at his private residence. Despite exoneration by the jury, Petrus failed in further appeals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19791394378So2d1016_11202.xml/PETRUS%20v.%20GUIN|title=Petrus v. Guin|date=December 3, 1979|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref> Petrus thereafter worked in the private sector became heavily involved in veterans and patriotic causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/22370499/alfred-joseph-petrus|title=Alfred Joseph Petrus|publisher=KTBS-TV|date=January 2009|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>Alfred Joseph Petrus was a son-in-law of two sheriffs in Grant Parish, [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]], who with a deputy was killed in the line of duty in 1936, and Nugent's widow and temporary successor, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent (1895-1976). The Nugents had eleven children, one of whom, Frances, was married to Petrus until his death in 2009.</ref>​

Commissioner Guin became involved in another legal dispute when R. W. Calhoun, the superintendent of the Cross Lake Patrol, which fell within the jurisdiction of the utilities department, testified that he had issued about fifty permits for construction of piers and boathouses extending into the lake. Calhoun said that he attempted to "accommodate everybody on the lake - depending upon the shape of his lot." Because numerous lake lots had had curved boundaries, Calhoun said that the city was compelled to guarantee equal access from all lots regardless of shape. Guin stood with Calhoun: "The criteria that I used, and the concept of this design, was to try to create equity [among] the owners of the adjacent lots around that cove. Each one should have access to the water, whereby he could build a pier." When a lot owner sued to block a neighbor from constructing a pier and boathouse, the court two years after Guin had left office stood with the city's method of issuing the permits.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19801224388So2d836_11074.xml/LIEBER%20v.%20RUST|title=''Lieber v. Rust''|date=1980|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref>​

Commissioner Guin became involved in another legal dispute when R. W. Calhoun, the superintendent of the Cross Lake Patrol, which fell within the jurisdiction of the utilities department, testified that he had issued about fifty permits for construction of piers and boathouses extending into the lake. Calhoun said that he attempted to "accommodate everybody on the lake - depending upon the shape of his lot." Because numerous lake lots had had curved boundaries, Calhoun said that the city was compelled to guarantee equal access from all lots regardless of shape. Guin stood with Calhoun: "The criteria that I used, and the concept of this design, was to try to create equity [among] the owners of the adjacent lots around that cove. Each one should have access to the water, whereby he could build a pier." When a lot owner sued to block a neighbor from constructing a pier and boathouse, the court two years after Guin had left office stood with the city's method of issuing the permits.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19801224388So2d836_11074.xml/LIEBER%20v.%20RUST|title=''Lieber v. Rust''|date=1980|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=February 8, 2020}}</ref>​