Villa Park board adds personnel basis to executive session, approves closed‑door meeting

The Village of Villa Park board voted June 29 to add an additional basis for executive session under the Illinois Open Meetings Act and then recessed into closed session.

Trustee Gary Alfano moved to add 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) (the statutory personnel exception) as an additional basis to the litigation basis already listed on the meeting agenda. Trustee Sabri seconded the motion. The clerk conducted a roll‑call vote; all trustees present voted yes to add the personnel basis.

Later in the meeting trustees made a motion to go into executive session under the listed bases and the board recessed to closed session at about 8:08 p.m. The agenda items moved into executive session included discussion of outstanding debt obligations and bond expenditures that trustees said related directly to threatened litigation.

The board’s action does not disclose the substance of the closed‑session discussion; Open Meetings Act exemptions for personnel and litigation permit confidential deliberation but not final action that is not on the public agenda. The board indicated it would return to open session after the executive session concluded.

Outcome: The motion to add the personnel basis (mover: Trustee Gary Alfano; second: Trustee Sabri) was approved by roll call, and the board then recessed into executive session at 8:08 p.m.