Warren County Board of Ethics moves into executive session on two complaints; approves Feb. 5 minutes

The Warren County Board of Ethics on a February 2025 meeting approved minutes for its Feb. 5, 2025, meeting and voted to enter an executive session to consider two pending ethics complaints.

The presiding member called the meeting to order and completed a roll call that established a quorum, with members identified in the record as Mister Moynihan, Miss LaBarre, Mister Jablonski, Mister Diaz, Mister Hicks and Miss Hayes (serving as an alternate member). After establishing the quorum, the board moved to waive the reading of the minutes and approve the minutes from 02/05/2025; the motion was seconded and the board voted in favor.

With no public comment during the privilege of the floor, the presiding member sought a motion to enter executive session “per Officer’s Law 1051(f) to consider matters leading to the demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person or persons concerning Board of Ethics complaint 2025-1 and 2025-2.” A motion to enter executive session was moved and seconded and the board voted to go into executive session.

The board did not discuss the substance of the complaints in public during this meeting. The motion and vote recorded in the public minutes indicate the board’s action was to convene a closed session under the cited legal provision; no further public actions or findings on the complaints were recorded in the transcript provided.

The meeting record includes a brief correction: an earlier attempt in the meeting to approve minutes referenced 10/08/2024 but the board corrected the date to 02/05/2025 before approving the minutes.