Lakewood Village Board Dispute Reaching the Boiling Point

Tonight’s Lakewood Village Board meeting will be broadcast by Zoom.

Unfortunately, the Zoom sign-in characters are still locked on the Village web site, so you will have to copy and enter them individually. They can be found below:

The flash point at tonight’s meeting will be another censure resolution aimed at Trustee Bryan Younge.

This time for an email to fellow Trustees from Younge’s account.

Younge’s side of the story is included in this Sunday article:

http://159.89.184.83/2020/05/24/meanwhile-back-at-censure-city/

I filed a Freedom of Information request for documents leading up to the placement of the censure resolution on the agenda and, in an extraordinarily quick response, Clerk Jan Hansen sent some of the following, which I have arranged in time order:


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Lakewood Village Board Dispute Reaching the Boiling Point — 16 Comments

  1. Isn’t today the deadline for Lakewood to respond to you FOIA request for video??

  2. All we need to know. He throws his kid under the bus. Stay classy.

  3. Looks like another FOIA violation for Lakewood or Cal did not post the entire FOIA response.

    Conveniently MISSING is the actual invite. The invite sent on May 14th as shown in the above email.

    However, the invite was for MAY 6th. A date that had already passed!!

    Where is that documentation?

    It would be in Village possession.

    Why is it missing from the FOIA?

    The invite can be seen on the Village of Lakewood News and Politics Facebook page.

    More smoke and mirrors in an attempt to detract from the actual problems in Village Hall.

  4. Everything went south in that blasted town the Day Paul Serwatka left. He cleaned things up GREAT!

    Then the rodents returned to rebuild their foul nests.

  5. Serwatka’s right hand man is now the President and the Village Administrator was appointed by Serwatka.

    This is all part of the mess Serwatka left us.

  6. Jason McMahon, people in cracked glasses houses should besmirch decent men.

    Will you ever be honest?

    Truthful?

    Decent?

    I pity you. And pray for your dark soul.

  7. Yawn. People that hide behind anonymous handles should keep their opinions to themselves.

  8. Right or wrong Jason will put his name on it.

    Unlike most of the other cowards on here.

  9. Too bad Aaron Shepley isn’t available to shyster and screw things up like he did in Crystal Lake!

  10. Poor you McMahon. Nobody likes you. You’re the ‘Company Man.’ Play in the sandbox.

    Parker, you made me LOL!

    I’m sick of all the Shepley accolades. The man was venal, corrupt and vicious.

  11. Awe…How cute!!

    Another keyboard cowboy to insecure to use his own name!

    So precious!!

  12. Why is it that none of the liberal progressives can spell? Jason? It’s too – not to. To insecure shows motion and is a preposition. Thus your sentence makes no sense.

  13. The emails above with the blacked out redactions speak volumes!

    Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion, however, facts, protocol, and the law do matter.

    What happened to due process, proper investigation and the truth?

    If there is mistreatment or harassment within any work group, it should be officially reported, first hand and through the proper process, not through a shoddy survey that was orchestrated unilaterally by one trustee.

    This loose canon, vigilante approach is actually a disservice to anyone who may have been harassed!

    These types of accusations need to be taken seriously and handled professionally in order to have any chance of holding people accountable for their actions and to protect the village from legal exposure!

    Anyone who has even the most basic corporate experience should know this.

    Instead, one trustee has single handedly made a mockery of our Community.

    According to Trustee Younge’s statement above, after being informed that his meeting request was in violation of the Public Meetings Act, he replied that his son (not he) had sent the invite (to select trustees, not all) to meet privately.

    Did his son also draft the meeting appointment and populate the invitee section with email addresses of the select trustees to be invited?

    How did his son know which trustees to invite and which to exclude?

    Maybe Trustee Younge’s intentions were good, maybe they weren’t, but there is no doubt that his actions have been unprofessional at best and possibly in violation of the law, putting our village at risk of law suits and dividing our community.

    The personal attacks between members of our community are childish, embarrassing, and unproductive.

    We should all take a breath and look objectively and rationally at the facts as they become available and try to see the forrest though the trees.

    It’s easy to jump to conclusions and take sides, it’s much harder to control emotions, put personal differences aside and make an educated decision.

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