Amid tit for tat calls for accountability during heated exchanges between Thornton Township trustees and Supervisor Tiffany Henyard, officials approved audits of all township departments along with a former official’s credit card during a board meeting Tuesday evening.

Trustees Carmen Carlisle and Chris Gonzalez accused Henyard of continued unauthorized spending and general lack of transparency regarding township operations, while Henyard shot back by questioning Carlisle’s spending when the trustee worked as her assistant. Henyard motioned to conduct a “forensic audit/investigation” of former Thornton Township administrator Keith Freeman’s credit card “and Carmen Carlisle’s use of said card.”

“Let’s talk about your entanglement with Keith Freeman,” Henyard said to Carlisle during the meeting. “Let’s open the door so everyone knows what’s going on here in Thornton Township. We are going to tell the truth.”

Freeman served as a top aide to Henyard in Dolton, where she is mayor, and Thornton Township until recently, when he was fired from both positions. In Thornton Township, his dismissal was reportedly due to poor work attendance.

Carlisle said she welcomed any investigation into her spending as Henyard’s assistant, which she said was directed by the supervisor herself. She also said she would support hiring Lori Lightfoot to investigate spending at Thornton Township following the former Chicago mayor’s report about Henyard’s administration as mayor of Dolton.

“I have no problem in sitting down and talking to an investigator about any of the purchases I made on behalf of Thornton Township or Supervisor Henyard — the multiple trips I booked for her, the expensive hotel suites, the first class flights, the expensive dinners, you know, the different amenities that she received that were provided to her on behalf of Thornton Township residents,” Carlisle said.

With two trustees absent from Tuesday’s meeting, the board approved the investigation, though members did not discuss who will audit the credit card or how much it will cost.

Henyard blocked other proposals brought by trustees, including changing salaries for elected officials, creating an Accountability Department and establishing a whistleblower protection policy.

One other proposal involved an investigation into grant money and township funds for an at-risk youth program.

According to records obtained by the Chicago Tribune and Daily Southtown, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity received a federal subpoena last month for all records related to Thornton Township and “Project B Youth Violence Prevention.”

Daniel Petrella contributed to this report.