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Lemont board approves increase in Class A-3 liquor licenses after excluding trustees with licenses from the vote
Summary
The board approved ordinance O-31-25 to increase the number of Class A-3 liquor licenses after the village attorney advised trustees who hold liquor licenses should not be called on that item; the ordinance was removed from and later returned to the agenda for separate voting.
The Lemont Village Board approved ordinance O-31-25 on June 23, an amendment to the municipal code to increase the number of Class A-3 liquor licenses, after the measure was removed from the consent agenda for separate consideration.
Village attorney Mike Stone advised the board that because a newly elected trustee (Trustee Forsley) holds a liquor license, that trustee should not be called on votes concerning liquor-license items. Stone said this was “out of an abundance of caution” and that the trustee “cannot abstain, so the vote will only be the trustees absent Mr. Trustee Forsley.” He recommended that trustees who hold liquor licenses not be called on the item.
Following that advice the board removed the ordinance from the original consent vote, then later moved to bring O-31-25 back for a separate roll-call vote. The clerk called the roll while avoiding calling on the trustees the attorney had advised to exclude; the motion to adopt O-31-25 was recorded as approved by roll call.
The transcript shows trustees debated only the procedural question of who should be called on the liquor-license vote; the ordinance text itself was not discussed in detail on the record at the meeting. The clerk or staff did not read the ordinance’s full text aloud in the transcript excerpt and no application-specific details (such as the identity of a license applicant or the new total number) were recorded in the excerpt provided.
