Village Holding Closed Session Meeting on Hotel Litigation

The Menomonee Falls Village Board will meet in closed session Monday to discuss the ongoing foreclosure suit involving the ownership group of the Radisson Hotel.

The special meeting was announced Friday afternoon, and the board will meet at 6 p.m. at Village Hall. The meeting is in closed session because it concerns litigation and negotiation strategies.

The meeting comes on the heels of the village’s most recent filing, which could avoid heading to a trial later this year.

The village last week filed a motion for a summary judgment against part owner James Heyden, Constance O’Mara-Heyden, and L.A.C. Concepts, Inc., which is a company that extended a second mortgage on the hotel. The village also filed a summary judgment against Falls Lodging Investors, which was the original ownership group.

The pending case, which was filed in Nov. 2011 when the village appointed a receivership attorney, also includes a large group of subcontractors, who are not included in the village’s motion for a summary judgment. 

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The summary motion from the village seeks to collect the $14.8 million it is owed from the hotel’s owners.

A summary judgment is an attempt to avoid the time and expense involved with a trial, which would mean there are no factual issues or questions of law in the case to be tried. Village Financial Director Jason Kaczmarek, and attorney Brian Sammons on Monday both filed affidavits of support for the summary judgments, according to Waukesha County Circuit Court records.