The Investigation Part 1 - Something Wicked this way Comes
The Investigation Part 1 The key takeaway information in this report is: The current $40,000 "third-party investigation" had no legitimate purpose. There was no "complaint" other than an unseen, fictionalized one conjured up by President Joling. Joling initiated the process of an investigation without informing the Village Board. To the extent that there might need to be a resolution of some kind, Joling ignored the policy procedures directed in the Employee Handbook. Dan Joling directed the course of the investigation as it took place ; providing documents and questions for each interviewee, he also was a witness and a defacto "person of interest" being responsible for a gross waste of taxpayer money. He certainly had a personal stake in the outcome of the investigation. The closed session meetings from February to June were in violation of the Wisconsin Open meetings law. The pre-meditated, pre-determined outcome and plan was to "clear...