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Maywood trustees approve release of closed minutes, clear legal invoices; Attorney clarifies NLC Youth Delegation contribution process
Summary
The Maywood Board approved resolutions to release executive-session minutes for 2009 and 2016, authorized Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins legal invoices totaling $35,682.64, entered executive session on pending litigation, and heard public comments. Village Attorney Michael Jurusik advised that individual trustee contributions to the National League of Cities Youth Delegation must be processed on the warrant list while any board-level contribution would require agenda approval.
The Village of Maywood Board of Trustees on Jan. 10 approved resolutions to release certain executive-session minutes for both a 2009 full-year review and a 2016 full-year review, and approved legal statements from Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd. for November 2016.
Trustee M. Rogers moved and the board approved the 2009 and 2016 executive-session minutes release resolutions as recorded in the meeting packet. The transcript records that Mayor Edwenna Perkins voted "nay" on both resolutions. The meeting record contains an inconsistency in the roll-call listing for the 2009 resolution (the transcript lists Trustee I. Brandon both among the ayes and as abstaining); the transcript copy available in the Clerk's office should be consulted for the official roll call and the Village clerk's record will control.
The board also approved two legal statements from Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd.: $8,361.50 for general matters for November 2016, and $27,321.14 for services covering economic redevelopment, employment and labor matters, litigation, waste contract matters and 911 dispatch consolidation for November 2016, for a combined total of $35,682.64 as recorded in the packet. A motion to approve the $8,361.50 statement carried with the transcript noting Mayor Perkins as voting "nay"; the larger $27,321.14 statement carried with the board voting aye.
During discussion of whether the board or individual trustees could contribute to the National League of Cities Youth Delegation, Village Attorney Michael Jurusik said, "if the Trustees contribute individually it is required that they submit the proper paperwork for it to be placed on the Warrant List for approval, and for the Village Board to contribute as a whole an item should be placed on the agenda for approval." He added that he believed such an expenditure "would comply with the 'for the benefit of the community' requirement for the spending of public moneys," as recorded in the meeting notes.
The board heard public comments from L. Redmond, S. Hurley, M. Larry, M. Mathers and G. Clay; Village Manager Willie Norfleet Jr. and Trustees I. Brandon, M. Lightford, H. Yarbrough and R. Rogers offered responses. The board subsequently voted to enter executive session at 7:59 p.m. to discuss pending litigation and to review closed minutes under the cited provisions of the Open Meetings Act. The regular meeting reconvened at 8:19 p.m. and adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
Members or interested residents may request the full comments and the official roll-call records from the Village Clerk's office.
