Board of Ethics

The Board of Ethics of the City of Mount Vernon Minutes of the meeting of October 3, 2022 The meeting was called to order at 6:36 p.m. via Zoom, and five members were in attendance, namely, Curtis Brewington, Chair; Ed Byrnes, Secretary; Lorna Kirwan, Khendra David, and Blair Hoplight. (Note that Dean Bailey had announced his resignation from the Board on October 2, 2022). John McGlynn was unavailable for the Board meeting. A motion was made and seconded to approve the proposed minutes for 9/12/22. Approved 5-0. A motion was made to go into a confidential session There were ethical complaints and investigations that had to be discussed by the Board. It was known that these matters were confidential, so a motion was made and seconded that the Board should go into a confidential session. A vote was taken, and it was unanimous that the Board would immediately go into such a confidential session. The Zoom recording stopped while the Board was in the confidential session. Confidential session An update on the status of Financial Disclosure Statements (FDSs) was discussed. [REDACTION ———- Investigation H] [REDACTION ———- Investigation J] [REDACTION ———- Investigation K] A motion was made and seconded that the Board go out of the confidential session and return to a public session. The motion was approved by a vote of 5-0. Public session resumes Upon returning to the public session, the only thing that was mentioned was that we would have our next Board meeting on Monday, October 17. All five members present at the meeting agreed to end the meeting around 8:00 p.m. Prepared by Ed Byrnes, Secretary