CORTLAND – After meeting with attorneys in a closed session, Cortland Township electors will call a future special meeting that could set the stage for a lawsuit against DeKalb County.

Roughly three dozen attended a meeting of township electors at the Cortland Lions Club building on Tuesday to receive an update on ongoing legal efforts to stop the county’s landfill expansion – located within Cortland Township boundaries – and consider its own lawsuit against the county to stop the expansion. Electors are registered voters who are township residents.

Meeting organizer Frankie Benson said there was more than the 15 residents’ signatures needed to call a special meeting of all interested electors to take an official vote on whether to sue the county for ignoring the township’s vote to block the expansion.