Politics & Government
Niles Board Holds Lopsided Meeting
Board considers ethics complaint, litigation matter at length in closed session.
The Niles Village Board scheduled a special meeting Tuesday and spent about an hour and 45 minutes in closed session. When they came out they spent less than five minutes taking one vote on sewer fees and adjourned.
The agenda the village announced prior to the meeting called for the board to discuss litigation related to the Open Meetings Act and a complaint received by the village's Ethics Hotline. The board was scheduled to discuss both in closed session.
After the meeting, Trustee Jim Hynes, who took the helm of the Ethics Committee in June, declined to say what the ethics complaint was about.
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"Everything is confidential," he said, at least for now.
The ethics hotline, established in 2009, receives many misdirected calls and wrong numbers, former Ethics Committee member Joseph Annunzio has announced in the past at village board meetings.
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The village board does not discuss those dud calls.
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