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Trustees debate limits on virtual attendance; medical-only restriction fails
Summary
The board debated tightening the village's remote-attendance rules for trustees and appointed officials. A motion to restrict virtual attendance to medical reasons and require notification failed 4–3; a later camera-on/primary-responsibility amendment also failed. Trustees asked staff to refine the policy language and clarify notice and closed-session rules.
Trustees spent more than an hour debating the elected-and-appointed-officials handbook section governing remote participation. Discussion focused on whether the board should restrict virtual attendance to narrow circumstances, require cameras on for remote participants, and ban remote participation for closed sessions.
Trustee Luis argued that elected officials should primarily attend in person and that virtual attendance should be reserved for medical…
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