About 20 protesters, hoisting Halloween-themed signs that read No tricks … Just treat us fairly and Waiting for the town to give up the ghost, gathered Tuesday afternoon outside of Windermere’s Town Hall in support of ending the town’s three-year lawsuit against the owners and former owners of the five historic boathouses in Palmer Park.
Inside Town Hall, the town council and the town attorneys were in a “shade meeting” about the lawsuit — a closed-door session of a public body that is an exception to open meeting rules. According to the notice about the meeting, it was to “allow Town Attorneys (sic) to seek advice from the Town Council (sic), which will be confined to settlement negotiations and strategy related to litigation expenditures” related to the lawsuit.
“It’s been going on a long time,” said resident Amanda Black, referring to the lawsuit. She was holding a sign that said, The lawsuit that refuses to die. She helped create and distribute the Halloween-themed signs protesters carried…