Trustee Harrington presented what he believed the next steps should be in order for he, and some others on the Board, to be more comfortable with definitively voting on 911 consolidation. With the exception of Trustee Gohl, a motion was passed to pay additional consulting fees to obtain more information to be discussed at the regular March meeting.
Discussion of special counsel selection for legal and insurance purposes to address the pending lawsuit was moved to executive session at the request of Harrington and Messer. Before the public meeting broke, however, President McLaughlin point out the fact that he appointed Patrick Bond to be special counsel assigned to all matters related to horse boarding in May of 2014. He then moved public comment up so the dozens of residents in attendance could have an opportunity to speak before the closed executive session began.
Five residents took advantage of this opportunity. Three were particularly pointed in their opinions of some of the current Village Board members, and one of them raised some eyebrows with his direct candidness.
Speaker number four questioned why an additional attorney for the lawsuit is being discussed when we don’t pay our current one. He described some on the Board to be a “cancer on our Village” and opined if they were good people, they would resign. His brief, but very pointed comments can be heard here.