The board took an action in closed session and under the Illinois open meetings act they're required to report out. So they were merely following the law. |
The fact that maybe he upset some people in prior departments... I don't know that that's surprising as someone who's brought into many of these departments to institute community policing measures. |
The offer of appointment to Mr. Purdy has always been contingent on the results of a background investigation. |
They were all very strong candidates. They all had strengths that were appealing and any one of them could do a good job for us. |
We met yesterday, we didn't work out all the details. But we got the ball rolling with the decision to look at other candidates. |