Board of Ethics

MOUNT VERNON BOARD OF ETHICS MINUTES, FEBRUARY 28, 2024 MAYOR’S CONFERENCE ROOM The mee ng was called to order by the Chairman Brewington at 6:41 pm and a roll call was taken. Members present: Chairman Cur s Brewington, Beresford Granston, Ed Byrnes, Leslie Alpert, Rev. F. Romall Smalls. Blair Hoplight was absent. The public session por on of the minutes of the mee ng of January 11 were approved with a mo on made and seconded. All in favor. Minutes of the execu ve session have been tabled for a later me. Ed Byrnes indicated that regarding ling of the 2023 Financial Disclosure Statements there was one individual s ll outstanding. The ma er was tabled and would take place later in the mee ng during the con den al session. He con nued that we should set the date for the next mee ng. It was decided that the mee ng would be held on March 14 commencing at 6:30pm in the Mayor’s Conference Room. All members present agreed. The date will be submi ed to the City Clerk for con rma on of venue availability. The ma er of this board’s Rules of Procedure not aligning with those of the other city boards with respect to the informa on posted on the city’s website was raised by Leslie Alpert. This ma er will be addressed so that a endance and absence from mee ngs will conform to the other boards. Addi onally, she said that while the Board of Ethics member’s names appear on the board’s web page some of the other boards and commissions contained no such informa on. The members all agreed that there must be uniformity of all boards and commissions and Chairman Brewington said he would bring this ma er to the a en on of the City Clerk. A mo on was made at 6:58pm to go into execu ve session. The mo on was seconded. All in favor. The Zoom recording and Facebook streaming was stopped and the board began the execu ve session. EXECUTIVE SESSION All matters during this session were con dential in nature, and, therefore, they have been redacted in order to allow this version of the minutes to be available to the public. ti ti fi ti ti ti ti ti ti tt fi ti ti tt tt fi ti tt tt ti ti ti fi ti ti tt ti ti ti ti ti tt ti ti  EXECUTIVE SESSION ENDED The mee ng resumed on Face me and Zoom. A mo on was made at 8:32 to adjourn. The mo on was seconded. All in favor. Mee ng adjourned. Respec ully submi ed. Leslie Alpert Secretary ti ti ti tt ti tf ti