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Resident raises employment dispute at Iroquois County Health Committee; committee reviews animal-control and public-health reports and votes to enter executive
Summary
A public comment at the Iroquois County Health Committee on May 6 raised an unresolved employment-status dispute involving animal control, and the committee moved into executive session under the Illinois Open Meetings Act to discuss the matter with the state's attorney involved.
A public comment at the Iroquois County Health Committee on May 6 turned to an apparent employment dispute when Linda Rebar told the committee she had not been terminated and had not resigned from her animal-control role and that a resignation letter and a retraction were both with the state's attorney.
"All of the information is currently with the state's attorney," Rebar said during public comment and said she had not received a response; committee members said the matter would be handled with the state's attorney and suggested discussing it in executive session because it is an employment matter.
After receiving the public comment and routine reports, the committee voted to enter executive session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) (the Illinois Open Meetings Act provision allowing closed discussion of appointment,…
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