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Mayor warns trustees against sharing work-in-progress documents, cites Open Meetings Act
Summary
Mayor Rodney Buckley relayed the Village Attorney's guidance that distributing work-in-progress materials to a select group can violate the Illinois Open Meetings Act and recommended marking drafts as watermarked before dissemination.
Mayor Rodney Buckley told trustees, citing the Village Attorney, that "no information that is a work in progress by the board/committee should be disseminated to a select group of individuals, it is a violation of the Open Meetings Act." He advised that draft materials still under development should be clearly watermarked as drafts before being shared.
The comment frames how the village will handle internal document circulation during policy development and budget planning. The minutes do not record further discussion, requests for legal opinion, or a formal vote on changing document-distribution practices.
