State Ex Rel. Badke v. Village Board of the Village of Greendale

A majority of the members of the seven member Village Board of the Village of Greendale (Village Board) regularly attended meetings of their Plan Commission, including four meetings at which a proposed housing project (the Sileno project) was discussed. The Village Board had ultimate decisionmaking responsibility on the project. It is undisputed that there was no intent to violate the open meeting law. Nevertheless, the question is whether their attendance at these four meetings constituted "meetings" within the meaning of Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law, thus necessitating a notice to the…