§ 2-105. Meetings; quorum; minutes; public notice.

(a)

The regular meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be held without notice on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month of the year at 7:30 p.m. in the council chamber in the Wilmette Village Hall, unless otherwise ordered by the Board. A member of the Board of Trustees must be physically present at the place of any regular, special, committee-of-the-whole, standing committee, ad hoc committee, or special committee meeting, any board or commission meeting, or any other public meeting provided for by law or in this Code, in order to be considered present for the purposes of constituting a quorum, in order to vote, or in order to participate in the discussion of any matter of business at said meeting. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the President or by any three Trustees, upon at least 48 hours' notice to all Trustees of the village and the President.

(b)

A majority of the President and Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business. Minutes shall be kept of all meetings of the Board, both regular and special.

(c)

Public notice of all meetings, whether open or closed to the public, shall be given as follows:

(1)

The Board of Trustees shall give public notice of the schedule of regular meetings at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year and shall state the regular dates, times, and places of such meetings. Public notice of any special meeting, except a meeting held in the event of a bona fide emergency, or of any rescheduled regular meeting, or of any reconvened meeting, shall be given at least 48 hours before such meeting, which notice shall also include the agenda for the special, rescheduled, or reconvened meeting. The validity of any action taken by the Board of Trustees which is germane to a subject on the agenda shall not be affected by other errors or omissions in the agenda. However, this requirement of public notice of reconvened meetings does not apply to any case where the meeting was open to the public and it is to be reconvened within 24 hours, or an announcement of the time and place of the reconvened meeting was made at the original meeting and there is no change in the agenda. Notice of an emergency meeting shall be given as soon as practicable, but in any event prior to the holding of such meeting, to any news medium which has filed an annual request for notice as set forth below.

(2)

Public notice shall be given by posting a copy of the notice at the village hall. The Board of Trustees shall supply copies of the notice of its regular meetings, and of the notice of any special, emergency, rescheduled or reconvened meeting, to any news medium that has filed an annual request for such notice. Any such news medium shall also be given the same notice of all special, emergency, rescheduled or reconvened meetings in the same manner as is given to members of the Board of Trustees provided such news medium has given the Board of Trustees an address or telephone number within the territorial jurisdiction of the Board of Trustees at which such notice may be given. (ILCS ch. 5, act 120, § 2.02)

(Code 1993, § 2-2.5.1; Ord. No. 92-O-110, 12-15-1992; Ord. No. 94-O-116, 1-10-1995; Ord. No. 96-O-112, 1-14-1997; Ord. No. 2001-O-88, 12-11-2001)