All of these agencies together to coalesce around this issue.

Thank you.

I mean, I was just going to ask about that.

As we've seen, and I'll get to in this uh presentation.

Um, many of you know that um uh the murder rate for domestic cases have been has been increasing in Cook County.

And so really that was the impetus to getting everybody together.

Um the county has done some uh tremendous things, the city as well, the state.

Um, but uh this is the first coordinated effort of its time.

Um so we really appreciate everybody on uh joining us today, and then also um who will be um helping us along the way.

The data and research team is really gonna be the backbone of these efforts because we're gonna be telling the story in this working group and really looking at the data sets that are available, seeing where the gaps are and trying to use um the data that we can culminate to inform the executive committee and then eventually the public this summer uh via the public hearings.

Um so with that, I'm just gonna start.

Um I apologize um for some of you that are sorry, Katie.

Could we do introductions just super quick?

Um because I know some some people were on it before, um, but I just want to make sure that we can all um kind of go around.

Um Commissioner Degman, if you want to start.

Thanks, Amy.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Commissioner Bridget Dugnan.

My district covers the north and northwest side of the city of Chicago, and I'm so excited to be co-chairing this data and research task force um with uh all of you here today.

And then I will kick it to my team, Bailey.

Hi, I'm Bailey Nelson.

I am Commissioner Dugnan's chief of staff.

Um I will kick it to Dr.

Joshi.

Thanks so much, Bailey.

Kieran Joe, she chief operating officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health.

Um it over to my friend and colleague Christina Kappa.

Thanks, Dr.

Josh.

Hi everyone, Christina Kalba, Director of Policy for the Justice Advisor Council, and I am joined by my colleague Caleb Posley, who's policy analyst with our team and focuses on DV for the JEC.

Uh and I'll pop it over to Kate at the OCJ.

Hi, I'm Kate Nolan.

I'm on the legal staff of the Office of the Chief Judge, and I'll send it to Cliff, my legal colleague.

Hi, everyone, I'm Cliff Helm.

I'm also on the legal staff of the Office of the Chief Judge.

I think I see Ian as well.

Pass it to you.

Good morning, everybody.

My name's Ian Jance.

Um, I'm on the research and evaluation team uh at the Office of the Chief Judge.

I will pass it to Steven.

Uh hi, everyone, my name is Steve Peacock.

I am the uh deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs for the Office of the City Clerk.

And I will pass over to my highly blory.

Hi everyone, I'm Lori Probasco.

I'm the deputy chief legal for Clerk Anna Valencia.

I also used to be with Commissioner Degnan throughout the county, so it's good to see a lot of familiar faces.

And I will pass it to Cynthia.

Morning, everyone.

My name is Sergeant Cynthia Flores.

I'm with the Chicago Police Department, currently assigned to the Victim Services, the Domestic Violence Program.

And I will pass it over to Mariana.

Hi, everyone.

Good morning.

Mariana Martinez.

Um her pronouns.

I am the assistant director for the domestic violence and gender-based violence unit with victim services at CPD.

Um, and I will pass it to not sure who hasn't gone.

So anyone just wants to jump in.

Well, this is Alderman Tabaras 23rd ward.

Um, thank you all for being here.

And I will pass it over to Carmen.

Good morning, everyone.

Carmen Dracone, a volunteer with uh Chicago 77, and uh happy to be working with the city of Chicago County and State um on this wonderful task force.

And I will kick it over to, I believe it's Jacqueline Silva.

Hi everyone, Jacqueline Silva from the Office of Emergency Management and Communications on the Policy Analyst, and I will kick it over to my colleague Mary Ann.

This is Mary Ann McKeever.

I'm the assistant director of 911 operations at the OEMC.

Um I am not sure who has gone and who has not.

So anybody pick up the case.

Hi, this is Brian CC.

Go ahead.

Hi, Brian CC, Director of Policy for Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller.

And I'll kick it to whoever hasn't introduced themselves.

Okay, welcome.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Latrice Moore.

Under the Office of the First Deputy, and I'll kick it over to Betty Ortiz.

Sorry, I couldn't work.

My name is Betty Ortiza.

I'm the commander with the Chicago Fire Department.

I'm in charge of uh I oversee the uh community outreach um and diversity team.

And I'm not sure who else hasn't gone.

Hey uh Jack McNeil, a legislative director for Commissioner Bridget.

Hello, my name is AJ Burst.

I'm the manager of community relations and public engagement for the Office of Secretary of State.

Hi everyone, Kathy Caleron, she her.

I'm um the director of behavioral health program operations at the Chicago Department of Public Health, and I'm representing Dr.

Ige, and I oversee our programming in the behavioral health bureau across violence prevention, substance use, and mental health.

Nice to see everyone.

And pass it to whoever hasn't gone.

Hi, I'm Sarah Smith with the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

I'm a senior public policy manager.

Um our uh director of research, uh Annie Chambers is uh a genius and knows a lot more than I do, but I've been working with her for a few years.

Um she's not on this call this week, but um for future calls, uh, she will be the um subject matter expert from the sheriff's office.

Wonderful.

Um, I think that's everybody.

Anyone hasn't gone, just let me know.

Um, but I think we can get started.

So yeah, thank you all again so much for being here.

Um kind of with this first meeting, we just wanted to do introductions and then Katie has a presentation just to kind of go over the background and what the this working group will be focusing on, and then we can open it up for discussion and then go over uh next steps for the future meetings.

So Katie, do you wanna take it away?

Yes, thank you.

So I apologize in advance to anybody who's already heard my spiel today.

Um, or we'll have to listen to it again later today.

But um, we're doing um we're gonna start from the beginning um because some people are new to this.

We did have a uh an executive committee meeting in January, uh, but these are the first working group meetings.

Um so if you were not able to attend the executive meeting, we're gonna kind of start from the beginning.

Um we want to thank everybody for being on this call.

Uh, this is a tremendous group.

So thank you very much.

Um, we're, as I mentioned, this is the first effort of its time.

We're trying to coalesce around this issue.

Um, but really we um need everybody's input and expertise.

Uh we have talked to about you know a couple hundred people in different agencies with really vast experience, subject matter experts.

Um we put together preliminary plan.

It's a working draft.

Um, and really with everyone's input, we're gonna put together a final report um come June.

That report will include recommendations for future collaborative efforts, but also um give updates on what we've been able to accomplish thus far.

Um, as mentioned, this group is really important to these efforts because one of the main tenets of these efforts is to provide transparency, data and accountability, um, and to really start communicating more uh between agencies.

Um so with that, I'm just gonna give the um the uh presentation that provides a brief overview of the efforts thus far.

Um so um just to kind of begin, this is um we've talked to people for two years.

Aldaman Tabaras first reached out to me.

Um Commissioner Miller next.

And so that's this is really a uh an organic uh effort that came from multiple discussions on several different fronts.

Um and when they first approached um uh me and and Carmen and our team, it was um because the numbers were showing um that there was an increase in violent crimes against women and murders against women.

And unfortunately in 2025, we saw that again.

And so uh what we're coming together to do is to provide a whole government approach to this uh public safety crisis and create a new model for a coordinated system.

Um, so as I may have explained before to some of you, um, unlike other systems of care systems of of court systems, um violence against women, gender-based violence, and everything that falls under that umbrella um is vast because it covers three levels of government, four if you're including the federal government.

So state agencies, county agencies, and city and local governments each have statutory obligations, um, each have their own data sets and points of contact with victims and survivors and children.

Um, but up until now, there's really not been a uh a system of coordination among all of these levels of government.

And so we really hope by bringing everybody together, we can um make a blueprint for what that will look like going forward, but also um to learn from each other and um start from the beginning, really.

Um, and so we have an amazing group of survivors who've been providing input, um, their personal experiences going through the system, different points in Cook City have been really helpful for us to really map out what's happening and how we can improve.

Um sadly, as the Chicago Tribune reported, um, Illinois has a higher per capita death rate for those killed by a spouse or an intimate partner than the states of New York and California combined.

Um similarly, the city of Chicago has a higher uh murder rate than New York City and LA County combined per capita.

Um so we know that we're experiencing a public safety crisis uh for first responders, they're probably nodding their heads.

Um so many that work with um survivors every day.

Um, but really um we're trying to understand the scope of this issue.

Um, and in this group particular, we really want to see what we know and then what we need to know.

Um, and so we have some partner agencies.

Um we're working out some data sharing agreements and other um collaborative agreements with them right now.

Um there's more that have been reaching out to us, remaining with John Hopkins and University of Michigan next week.

Um there's a there's a big interest in providing some technical support to this um initiative.

And so um we are really hopeful that we'll have some really great um innovative projects that come out of this.

Uh the government partners that are um included in this effort is the state of Illinois, Cook County, the city of Chicago, and then the local agencies, the jurisdictions uh throughout Cook County.

Um, so really this is uh uh enormous colossal uh project.

It's a six-month effort.

This will roll into something much longer in a different format.

Um, but bringing everybody together was really the first step.

Uh we unfortunately don't have countywide data, but the city of Chicago data is telling a pretty horrific story.

Um and so while fatal shootings decreased by 33%, domestic related fatalities increased by 50%.

Actually, I think this number is 55 now.

Um, it's as more were categorized as domestic.

Um in 2025, homicide victims in domestic cases were 71% African American, 17% Hispanic Latino, and 10% white, meaning that 88% of all homicide victims in domestic cases were minorities.

The Office of the Inspector General uh reports that 336 calls per day to the Chicago police department are domestic related.

Um so if you're not familiar with the Office of the Inspector General's website, we'll be sharing that.

Um, but there's probably over a hundred different criteria, and that's just four four different calls for service.

So that includes all of the calls to 911 um that CPD has to respond to.

And it's what it equates to one in four of the priority level one calls.

Um, so that's a pretty stunning number.

Um, so kind of similar to as I shared, um, this process is historically operated without independent data oversight or much publicly available data.

Um, so as I mentioned, there's not really countywide data.

We don't know much about orders of protection.

There's there's different parts of the system that remain a mystery until these efforts.

Um the timeline is um has obviously already initiated, but uh we are running these executive leadership meetings, those are monthly.

The next meeting will be Wednesday.

You could join virtually or in person.

It's at the Cook County Board Hearing Room, floor five of the county building, the county side of City Hall for those on the city side.

Um, and we have some really great expert panelists joining those conversations.

And they're focused on a few different priorities, including um creating unified system, improving the first responder safety and health, those that are responding to these calls, they're extremely dangerous calls, but also they take a mental and physical toll.

And then obviously overall reducing violent crimes and victimizations.

The executive committee's three main tenants are to uh dissect the availability, the current, and then what make a plan for transparency and accountability across the governments, data sharing and record access, and then producing a legislative agenda that everybody is in agreement with that will give us some momentum in Springfield.

Um there's um if that's a work in progress, but there's already a few things on the list, um, especially uh legislation that impedes data sharing as we see it right now.

Um so the word there's six different working groups, um, the high priority orders, data and research, court systems and programming, and then first responders' health, training policies, and survivorhood.

Data and research really will be looking at the data and research, best practices, looking at evidence-based models, um, but then also supporting the court systems and the high priority order working groups.

Um, so this is a really important um working group and for a data nerd.

Um, I'm excited about it.

Um, so what we'd like to do is um identify collaborative methods for data sharing, improve data accuracy, um, which is which is a big issue in Cook County, develop uh research methods and examine best practices.

Um the um data and research, the initial priorities, and like I said, this is a working draft, and we'd like to add everybody's input, um, but we wanted some place to at least begin the discussion.

Um the first will be to partner with the high priority in the court system as mentioned.

Um, the second is to investigate the creation of a public dashboard system that would include data inputs from all three levels of government and all of the agencies that have statutory obligations to serve these populations.

Um, and so what this will do will provide um accountability, transparency, but also help um with the public trust in the system that is designed to protect them.

Um the other um final thing would be to produce a data analysis for all of Cook County.

We need to know the numbers that I shared before.

We need to know what's happening in Cook County and what's happening to victims and survivors outside of the city of Chicago.

And so that's that's a major goal of this group.

Um I wanted to share this with you, and I'll circulate these slides afterwards, but um, there's some current data dashboards.

Um we are absolutely aware of them.

So the violence reduction dashboard is where the data was pulled that I shared previously about Chicago.

That's the only data dashboard that has domestic related um data available.

Um truly without that dashboard, or if that went down tomorrow, no information about violent crimes anywhere in Cook County.

So it's really important to protect that dashboard and build off of it.

Um the Office of the Inspector General has an amazing data set um for first responders and calls and public safety.

Um, so if you haven't checked that out, um, definitely take a look.

Um, they've built an amazing dashboard, but it's really just pursuant to the city Chicago agencies.

Um the office, the inspector general uh herself will be presenting on Wednesday, and we'll be talking more about that dashboard and what it took to bring everybody together um to start building it.

Um the civic committee has a newer um data dashboard, um, and that is just focused on their priorities and to build data around the initiatives that they're currently funding around violence reduction in our community.

So it has City of Chicago and Cook County data.

Um nothing that pertains to domestic data or violence against women yet.

Um, but it's a really great resource.

It's independent, it's independently funded, um, and they have a really amazing team that they have assembled to help really tell the story of what's happening in Chicago, Cook County.

Um so it's it's something to watch going forward.

And then the Cook County Justice Dashboard, um, which is uh I is Loyola University, and I believe um kind of a an offshoot of the safe data justice challenge that many of us were on.

Um, and so that provides uh information about the criminal justice system.

Um there's other agencies that share internal data.

The Cook County Clerk has um cases filed, the state's attorney has um information about uh their decisions, and then the Chicago police department also has um data on their site.

Um but what we're really looking at is is more of a cross-sectoral analysis.

So data from different departments um put together that tells a story.

Um so we could build upon what is available now.

Um, but we really want to have one site that can share information, hopefully on a daily basis about what's happening in the civil, the criminal um systems, and then um with the Chicago police department, with suburban um agencies, and then what the state agencies are seeing as well.

Um and so that is something that um I think would be a major deliverable for this overall effort.

Um and one of the things we hear over and over and over again is the lack of resources for victims, survivors for their children um in the city of Chicago and Cook County.

Um, and so this truly will help organizations get funding.

Um, and so as soon as we can implement this, I really do think we'll start to see an increase in the availability of resources.

Um we've heard from several alderman, some commissioners who are writing letters of support, they're trying to support the local organizations in their jurisdictions and they're just not getting funded.

And that's really difficult for an organization to to respond to an RFP or to submit a grant, and they don't have base, you know, some baseline data, especially from the civil court system.

And so civil court system houses most of the orders of protection, most of the domestic related cases.

Um we really want to start um to build something that will also build partnerships with the respective government agencies um with the organizations that that desperately are look seeking more um attention.

I know I just have a couple more minutes.

So I just want to get to um some, I'll jump ahead to next steps, Amy is just um we're going to um share, I'm gonna share this so you guys can all analyze these dashboards.

If there's anything I'm missing, please let me know.

Um and then we want to start culminating a list of the data gaps, um, and then we can work towards how to address those gaps together and what agreements need to be um formulated and really if there's legislative gaps, if we could um then kick that over to the legislative efforts.

Um so if you have any questions, please reach out anytime.

We have um an email at taskforce at ccvaw.com.

I think most of you have my email as well.

So um please reach out anytime if you have any thoughts or input.

Um, and then we'll just um begin the discussion from there.

These are just some discussion starters, but I'll just check in to see if anybody has any questions first.

Okay.

So um I guess the first question is really what are initial thoughts of the group on these specific priorities?

And is there anything that we are missing that we should add, you know, as as we begin these efforts.

And if people want to raise their hand or put anything in the chat, um, this is kind of just you know, for first meeting to get an idea of, you know, if you have any questions or anything you want to focus on, um, just an open discussion and then kind of leading into next steps and assignments and things like that.

So if anyone has a question or wants to start.

So hi.

Um I'm Sarah Smith with the sheriff again.

And again, I'm not uh I'm not the director of research, but I I will say that in the sheriff's experience of providing um our data relevant to service rates, because I think that's where that's what people um are most interested in from the sheriff in this area.

Uh we have shared that data as it's been asked for um from advocate advocates.

We've shared it on a monthly basis.

But with that data, are a lot of um uh notes as I'm trying to think of the right word, but notes that uh this data may not reflect the full picture because of you know, um service in court or short form notification and all these things that have been discussed about why the data what's showing up in leads is may not be correct or things are not getting to where they need to be.

So my I guess my point is we at the sheriff's office, we have data, but we also see it as incomplete, which is where this task force I I think comes can help is that where we can't fill in the gaps that we can discuss ways of even if it is on a state level, which I think is um some of the issues uh that we can come up with solutions so that we can provide everyone with uh appropriate data.

Yeah, absolutely.

And that's why I think the different inputs are so important, you know.

So um so we can see really the whole picture um together.

Um sorry, someone has their hand up.

Hi, this is AJ from Secretary of State's office.

Excuse my ignorance on this, but I think some what would be good is knowing um what would be what what gets reported, for example, um when calls are made into a law enforcement agency for domestic um abuse incident.

What are the things that are recorded or should be recorded that we should then have reporting or data on?

I'm I'm asking that because I am ignorant of it, ignorance of that, for example, and I think knowing that information can help us think about what else we need.

Oh, and and that's a great question.

I think um that the um the officer in the of the inspector general's website does a great job with cook with I'm sorry, the city of Chicago.

Once again, we need to tell that story with Cook County.

Um, but and I know there's some Chicago fire people on here, you know.

We've been hearing from different people that just, you know, um, not just CFD, but really the the fire departments are at the front line of this.

So they might get there and some of them may have been injured, they're taking them to the hospital.

You know, it's not at that time categorized as domestic, it's not until that person, you know, comes to or decides the next morning to file a police report.

Um, so really it it's a it's hard to get um data accuracy is one of the the goals is because it's really hard right now to get an understanding of scope.

Um, and so I think we really need to probably dissect each of the systems and see what everybody is capturing.

Um, but 911, you know, does its best job of basically referring to and I'm ones on this call, but uh please speak up, but um referring to either CPD, CFD or trying to categorize.

Um, but obviously if the victim is not saying on the phone what you know what's happening, or if it's somebody that um, you know, say for for a homicide, they're responding to a homicide and they don't under, you know, they don't know the nature of the case yet.

A lot of domestic homicides are determined to be domestic up to year, two years later.

So it's really hard to get um accuracy, data accuracy, but also to have somebody that the cares enough to go back and recategorize that that you know, that file.

And so um, we really just want that's a great point.

And I don't have a great answer, but that's part of the discussion here is how can we really build the scope um uh to be able to tell a story of what's happening.

We know it's a public health crisis, but it's really hard to uh to get uh wrap our arms around.

Okay, so this is Latrice with the fire department.

And I just want to say that I don't think that we actually capture our data as far as if it was a domestic violence case or not.

Um what I think might maybe eventually be useful might be the way that we document um when we encounter domestic violence cases, but as far as like documentation and numbers, that's something that we do not have.

We'll add that to our to-do list.

So thank you.

If hi everyone, this is uh Sergeant Flores from CPD.

If I can add what I do know about what our 911 call data is collected, we do have what the dispatchers initially get from the complaining person on the phone, the person who's calling 911 and how they categorize the call.

And then we also have the final disposition and how the officer determines what happens um on scene, whether that is just a code that they're coding it out and they say that it's domestic or whatever call the type of call it is, and or if they did a case report, they would deem it as domestic.

Um, and but there are times where it's deemed domestic a little bit later on, and it's um because maybe there was a shooting and that we didn't know the nature of the relationship yet.

And so then it's recoded and classified later.

But there is a disfinal disposition on our 911 call like um information.

Um that's really helpful.

So for CFD, there's that would need to be implemented then basically that like kind of that initial dispatcher, you know, flag, and then the CFD or um the EMTs, then this physician would that kind of be a model that they could replicate.

our 911 call like um information um that's really helpful so for cfd there's that would need to be implemented then basically that like kind of that initial dispatcher you know flag and then the the cfd or um the emts then this physician would that kind of be a model that they could replicate I would have to look into that further okay great hi this is Betty from the commander in the fire department we don't usually put it as those kind of injury it would just be more just a injury it's not because we can't specify exactly the kind of injury and the domestic violence would not be anywhere near except for our documentation and what was wrong with the patient we don't usually write anything on there that would be domestic violence related at all okay any other questions or comments at this time uh Kate go ahead yeah hi um I'm just wondering if there is going to be participation from the from Clerk Sparopolis's uh office in this group I just think that they are a necessary component if we're talking about getting access to you know civil court data or criminal court data they are the keeper of that record and so um I just noticed they weren't in this group and maybe they're just not here today but um I I'm assuming we plan to include them in this conversation I do believe they are in this group I can double check but um they are in other ones and if that's something you know that we think oh if you could have a representative in this in this group that would be good but yes I do believe there should be someone here I just don't think that they're here today.

Okay great yeah because it just it there's you know um the court only has so much control over what the clerks you know the clerk's data they're a separate entity and so uh I just want to make sure that they're included in this conversation and would be able to express you know how they can and can't share data or what their data looks like and don't want to make representations on behalf of their office that you know are not accurate.

Oh absolutely I actually believe Clerk Speropolis is in this working group and somebody else Amy I think there's two people from that um agency that that have signed up yes yeah I do believe so I just don't know if they're on today but um I'll definitely follow up with them about that because yes I know that's always been you know getting the data from them and um being a part of this conversation would be very helpful.

Great thanks very good and then if anyone else has any other questions um maybe we can move into like next steps and assignments for the next working group we have the executive meeting tomorrow um but I think there's going to be other presentations but um you know I think the goal for these meetings is to have a discussion like this to you know ask questions that instead of playing telephone like oh I I thought I've heard this it's all in one cohesive spot so to have these discussions and then um to go forward and be like okay for the next group meeting what do we want to talk about what what should we bring what materials um so if there's any Katie if you have anything specific that we want to discuss next time or you know to bring any specific materials for next time yeah absolutely so I'm gonna um share all of these dashboards if everybody just takes a look um you know obviously we need to first see what um I'm missing like I said it's just four dashboards I know that there's others out there um Northwestern has one there there's a few external um but I don't think it's specific to um you know the Cook County City government so if I if I miss anything please share it and then if everybody can just take a look and come up with questions of what's missing.

So Chicago fire data would be a fantastic thing to add on that list um suburban fire data um whether or not that exists if that there's any repository for that um and then we can start building a plan.

We have um a few major deliverables but really um like I said this group will be supporting the other group so as we're initiating them there'll be conversations that we'll we'll take back to this group and and request that um for all of kind of the data research uh professionals so with that I would say um if there's if if everybody just wants to email or reach out if anything comes to mind but really what data information would be helpful um what barriers have you um had in the past um and really where you think we should be focusing on it's a fast paced effort so the more input the better um we like I said before we really appreciate everybody's time and their willingness to participate in this effort we're excited I just want to add that we completely understand that this is the work group that's going to be doing the heavy lifting um you're you're the one who's gonna take us from snapshots to a predictive a coordination like you're gonna be building the path and closing up the gap so

It's a fast paced effort.

So the more input the better.

Um we like I said before, we really appreciate everybody's time and their willingness to participate in this effort.

We're excited.

I just want to add that we completely understand that this is the work group that's gonna be doing the heavy lifting.

Um you're the one who's gonna take us from snapshots to a predictive of coordination, like you're gonna be building the path and closing up the gap.

So we appreciate you, but um, there's gonna be a lot of work here.

So thank you guys very much.

Yes, thank you.

Um, and if anyone from Health and Hospitals, Dr.

Yoshi, if you want to say anything, um I was we were kind of talking about this, how um health and hospitals would come in.

Maybe if there's data research, you know, concerning patients that come to the emergency room that have been in domestic violence situations and kind of the process of that.

I think that would be you know interesting to kind of look into.

Um, I know people from the JAC are also here.

So if anybody wants to say anything a little bit about their background with that, um, you know, well, we have a few more minutes here.

This is acquired a group.

We have to cut off the last the first meeting.

Um just to that point, we're initially looking at the criminal justice data, but health data is obviously next programming.

Um, the city has expansive programming.

Um, we'd love to hear more about what Cook County Health provides, how we can intersect the two um public health and public safety systems to better serve people in need.

There's a lot of health um and mental health related um needs.

Um we're hearing that over and over and over from everybody that we're talking to.

So we'd love to uh either have offline conversations or incorporate into this group about how we can um coordinate efforts on that front.

Yeah, definitely.

Because I think that is, you know, a big big part of it too, is someone's going to the hospital, like what's kind of the process of that, like our police meeting them there, is you know, I think that's just things like that are a good um stepping stone for that.

Um do we want to talk about next steps of the meeting, kind of just what we expect going forward or anything like from the different agencies.

I'll be sending out an email just following up about this about you know what we what we discussed today and kind of next steps and everything, but just so there's an overview for everybody.

Um if you if there's anything particular or we can put it in the email.

No, I mean I think we'll just share information.

Um we uh you know, I just want to thank everybody, but also, you know, please be patient with us.

This is a lot of moving uh pieces at once.

We have some great partners that we'll be joining, as I mentioned.

Uh, we'll have a lot of resources and help for everybody who who would like that.

Um, and also um, you know, just to kind of reach out, I know um, you know, this is a big topic area and this is a lot of information at once.

And so uh we'll just be, I think we'll we meet about eight times before June, and um there'll be an official report uh presented in July to both the Kokani board and the city council on the recommendations and findings of this group.

And so uh hopefully together we can come up with a few really um great suggestions and hopefully some deliverables from now until then.

Um so I guess um just in terms of we didn't know how how much time to locate for public comment, which we didn't have any, which um, so we're we could just end this meeting a little early, Amy, but we just want to say thank you again for joining.

I do just want to say one quick thing also.

So from each of these meetings, I will be creating uh like a binder of some sort, um, just with you know, the recordings, the transcripts.

If there's any materials you think that would be helpful to send me, please do, and we can kind of collaborate all those materials together.

So if there's something we talked about today, like, oh, we have data on this, please send that um my way because all this can go into the report, and then that way we just kind of have everything and we can remember like, oh, on Tuesday, February 10th, we talked about this, and this was the um file that was shared.

So any information or you know, materials that you think would be beneficial, please send to me or the task force email.

Um and yeah, if that's Amy, I have a quick question about the sorry, about the task force email.

Sure.

Um, just because our um IT chief has uh drilled all of this in my head.

remember like oh on Tuesday February 10th we talked about this and this was the um file that was shared so any information or you know materials that you think would be beneficial please send to me or the task force email um and yeah if that's Amy I have a quick question about the sorry about the task force email sure um just because our um IT chief has uh drilled all of this in my head I just noticed that it's uh ccva w dot com I just want to verify that it's secure to send I mean all these are public records and or whatever but I just want to make sure because it's not a county domain that it's still safe to send to um you know if you want to send to Amy if you're more comfortable um yeah that might be better just for me personally too so yeah yeah it's it's it's a public effort everything everything is public all these meetings are public so um those uh maybe so maybe it doesn't matter no I mean um honestly it's it's up to you it's um it's a good question um we just obviously it's the city county and state so we just created an independent uh it makes sense yeah but whatever you're most comfortable with uh we don't you know at the end really it's just um you know to kind of move us forward and then have this this working draft that we're that we're building on and and uh you know kind of moving towards quickly towards July um on what what the needs of the project are so we won't ask for any law data or any kind of protected data sets or anything like that.

Got it yeah if you so yeah if there's something more specific and more secure you can definitely send that to my my email uh which I believe you all have so that makes sense thank you yeah of course all right if nobody has any other questions or wants to comment on anything uh commissioner dengman would you mind adjoining this meeting yes I call for the meeting now to be adjourned thank you everybody thank you thank you have a great day I got one everyone