Board requests City Council remove Sandra Marshall after absence and residency concerns

An unnamed member of the Freeport board moved to ask the City Council to remove board member Sandra Marshall so she can be replaced by an active member, and the board voted the motion passed unanimously on the record.

The motion was introduced shortly after the meeting exited executive session. “I’ll make a motion to move forward with that to the city council and ask them to remember,” the member said. George Matamoros, the councilor liaison, asked that the board state the reason for removal on the record so Council would have clear grounds; Matamoros said Marshall is “no longer a resident of the city of Freeport.”

The member who made the motion clarified for the record that the basis for the recommendation was Marshall’s repeated failure to attend meetings rather than residency, saying she “never has showed up.” The board chair called the vote; members present responded “Aye,” and the chair declared the motion passed unanimously. The meeting record does not state the numeric vote tally.

The motion on the record asks the City Council to remove Sandra Marshall and permit replacement by an active member; any formal removal must be acted on by City Council. The transcript does not include a recorded Council response or a Council vote. After the motion passed, a member asked for updates on other properties (a question directed to “Shelby”), heard no update, and then moved to adjourn. The record ends immediately after the adjournment motion was made.

George Matamoros was identified in the meeting as the councilor liaison. No other full names were given in the transcript. The board’s request to Council is procedural: it directs the City Council to consider removal and replacement; it does not, on its own, effectuate removal.