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Marseilles council votes to amend minutes after heated exchange over HR report disclosure
Summary
The Marseilles City Council approved an amendment to December minutes after a council member sought to add a sentence stating a commissioner had called an HR report public; the discussion included a claim of video evidence and a disagreement with city legal counsel.
The Marseilles City Council voted to approve an amended set of minutes from its Dec. 17, 2025, meeting after a motion to add wording that “Commissioner Kaminski stated that the HR report has always been a public document and subject to release.” Mayor Hollenbeck called the roll and the motion passed on a recorded vote.
The amendment was proposed by a speaker who said he had video evidence of the remark and offered to play it if the council allowed. “I have that on video and would happily play it for you if approved,” the speaker said. The chair responded that “our legal counsel, KGG and Joliet disagrees,” and members debated whether the amendment was in order before taking the vote.
Council members exchanged points of order and procedural objections during the discussion. One councillor pressed that the motion was “in order” and asked for a second; another asked for clarity from counsel. After the procedural debate, the clerk read the roll and the council recorded unanimous Aye votes among those present to accept the minutes as amended.
The episode underscores a recurring local dispute over what items become part of the official record and whether personnel-related reports are public. The speaker who proposed the amendment said the change was meant to reflect precisely “what was said” at the earlier meeting rather than to assert the report’s public status as a legal fact.
