Carlisle Village Council will be engaging outside counsel to determine whether two of its members have committed ethical violations.

Councilwoman Jennifer Long made the motion at Tuesday’s council meeting that council hire outside counsel to review recent activities by Councilmen Bryan Green and Scott Boschert that may be ethical issues and to make recommendations to council on possible actions.

During the meeting, village Law Director David Chicarelli said the motion seeks the review of two situations involving Green and one situation involving Boschert. Chicarelli said neither of those council members should cast a vote on the motion.

Boschert and Green, along with Councilman Terry Johnson, abstained from the motion vote that was approved by the other four council members.

Chicarelli told The Journal the motion seeks the outside review of ethical issues that involve executive sessions held by council. He said one of the matters to be reviewed is whether Green violated attorney/client privilege during an executive session by making public that the federal judge in the civil suit against the village filed by former mayor Tim Humphries ruled that an affidavit filed by Green in the case would not be admissible in court.

After the meeting, Mayor Randy Winkler said the motion was “to have someone else take a look and tell us if there was a violation and what our choices are.”

Boschert and Green were elected in 2009, and their current four-year terms expire Dec. 31.

Humphries, who had been a center of controversy during his four-year term as mayor, currently has a $6.5 million civil lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati against the village, Chicarelli, Village Manager Sherry Callahan, former mayor Jerry Ellender and several current and past employees, as well as Ellender’s son.

Humphries filed his original lawsuit in October 2010 for defamation, libel, slander, false light, false and malicious prosecution, wrongful interference with employment, breach of contract, negligence, abuse of police powers, unlawful search and seizure, federal civil rights violations and civil conspiracy.

Winkler defeated Humphries for mayor in 2011.