Another chaotic village board meeting took center stage in south suburban Dolton Monday night as the results of an investigation into spending by Mayor Tiffany Henyard will be released later this week.
The meeting had to be stopped for around 15 minutes, with Henyard even threatening to have a pensioner removed for an outburst.
While those outbursts occurred during the open portion of the meeting, eight village employees were fired in closed sessions, including the public works supervisor, and three supervisors also lost their jobs.
Henyard also tried to fire Keith Freeman as village administrator. She requested a vote on the matter, but her motion did not receive enough support.
Last month, Freeman was fired from Thornton Township where he served as a senior adviser to Henyard, who serves as township supervisor.
Freeman’s firing comes as Henyard remains under federal scrutiny for alleged misappropriation of village funds. She is also the focus of a number of lawsuits.
Back in April, a majority of trustees voted to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a special investigator to look into Henyard’s spending habits.
Lightfoot is expected to deliver his findings in that investigation during a meeting Thursday night, according to officials.