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Maywood trustees reject tighter rule for placing items on agendas after OMA concerns
Summary
A proposed rule that would have required two trustees' written support and limited agenda items to two per trustee failed 4–3 after trustees and the village attorney warned it could create an Open Meetings Act conflict. Trustees later approved a separate procedure to place items on the agenda for discussion.
Maywood trustees voted down a proposed revision to the board’s agenda-submission rules on April 21, 2020, ending efforts to require two other trustees’ written support and a two-item-per-trustee cap.
The motion to adopt the stricter rule failed 4–3. Trustees A. Sanchez, K. Wellington and N. Booker voted in favor; Mayor Edwenna Perkins and…
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