GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The Green Bay City Council will be holding a special meeting Monday night at City Hall to review a request for Mayor Jim Schmitt’s removal of office.
On Monday, an Outagamie County judge denied Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt’s request to halt a removal hearing before it even started.
In a court filing Thursday, the mayor asked a judge to stop the proceeding from happening.
City Council President Tom De Wane says they’ll likely go into closed session at some point for discussion and then come out and vote.
“His (Schmitt’s) attorney will be there, I’m sure the petitioner’s attorney will probably be there if he has one, and we hired an attorney to help us through the process of this, to make sure it’s done legally,” said De Wane. “Legally we’ve got to follow through with the process. This is why it’s there. Someone did file a petition and the council has to follow through with that petition. He has a right to be heard.”
De Wane doesn’t think Schmitt will step down.
“He’s been asked to do that and he will not do that, I mean he’s not going to do that,” De Wane said.
