MONROE - A forfeiture case against the City of Monroe Salary and Personnel Committee regarding an alleged open meeting violation has been postponed pending the completion of a new judge assignment.
A status conference was originally scheduled for Thursday while Judge William D. Johnston of Lafayette County was still assigned to the case.
The case will resume once the new judge has been appointed and has accepted the case, with future scheduling to fit within that judge's calendar, according to the Green County Clerk of Court office.
Greg Gunta of the law firm Gunta and Reak, Wauwatosa, chosen by the city's insurance company to represent the committee, filed a request to substitute judges on May 7, along with the defendants' answer and defenses in response to the complaint filed by Green County District Attorney Gary Luhman earlier this year.
Rhonda L. Lanford, a judge elected in 2013 to the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, is now listed on the case file, following a judicial assignment order.
Luhman's complaint, filed for the State of Wisconsin on Feb. 6 in Green County Circuit Court, alleges the city did not give proper notice of a committee meeting on its publicly posted agenda regarding the intent of a closed session portion of that meeting.
Luhman contends four elected officials of the City of Monroe violated the state's open meeting law in 2013, when they went beyond the scope intended for the closed session by firing the city's utility director. The agenda item had indicated the closed session was for "Preliminary Consideration Of Employee Issues Addressed by Utilities Director."
A status conference was originally scheduled for Thursday while Judge William D. Johnston of Lafayette County was still assigned to the case.
The case will resume once the new judge has been appointed and has accepted the case, with future scheduling to fit within that judge's calendar, according to the Green County Clerk of Court office.
Greg Gunta of the law firm Gunta and Reak, Wauwatosa, chosen by the city's insurance company to represent the committee, filed a request to substitute judges on May 7, along with the defendants' answer and defenses in response to the complaint filed by Green County District Attorney Gary Luhman earlier this year.
Rhonda L. Lanford, a judge elected in 2013 to the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, is now listed on the case file, following a judicial assignment order.
Luhman's complaint, filed for the State of Wisconsin on Feb. 6 in Green County Circuit Court, alleges the city did not give proper notice of a committee meeting on its publicly posted agenda regarding the intent of a closed session portion of that meeting.
Luhman contends four elected officials of the City of Monroe violated the state's open meeting law in 2013, when they went beyond the scope intended for the closed session by firing the city's utility director. The agenda item had indicated the closed session was for "Preliminary Consideration Of Employee Issues Addressed by Utilities Director."