WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - Watertown’s Board of Ethics meets Monday at 3pm to address a complaint against Council Members Lisa Ruggiero and Cliff Olney from the remaining council members.

The board’s plan is to open the meeting publicly at 3pm and then go into executive session and allow Lisa Ruggiero and her lawyer 30 minutes to address the complaint behind closed doors.

In a letter Monday to ethics board chairman Stephen Jennings, Ruggiero’s lawyer, Steven Leventhal, renewed his request that Monday’s meeting not be private, and everything done out in the open.

Leventhal lists several reasons why the meeting should be in the public including Open Meetings Law doesn’t require an executive session for this meeting, both the accused council members are requesting the meeting be public

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