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Kenosha County executive committee approves revisions to board rules and merges ethics chapters
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The county executive committee approved amendments to board rules that add a 2/3 ratification for some chair decisions on committee participation and tighten exclusions from closed sessions; it also approved a technical merger of two ethics code chapters and struck a 45‑day finance referral deadline.
Kenosha County's executive committee on Thursday approved amendments to the county board's rules of procedure and a technical merger of two ethics code chapters after a broad review and several clarifying changes.
The committee approved a package of edits that included a requirement that a board chair's decision not to assign a supervisor to at least one standing committee be ratified by a two‑thirds vote of the board, and a provision that a chair may exclude a noncommittee supervisor from a committee closed session only when the chair states a specific conflict and a two‑thirds majority of the meeting's members ratifies that exclusion. The committee also struck a sentence in the finance rules that could have been read to require board action on finance…
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