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The Cook County Ethics Board convened on October 22, 2026, with Chair Raw presiding alongside Board Members Sinan and Sagal, establishing a quorum. The meeting covered the approval of prior meeting minutes, a detailed quarterly report from Director King, and votes on several determinations, advisory opinions, and requests to open investigations.
has submitted his resignation from the board has submitted his resignation from the board but we um well once we do that we can introduce themselves here um uh what you call it is uh member siegel here uh sendin uh yes i'll I'll do the role called you'll do the role yeah you can you can add the mic so I appreciate it uh Chair Raw yes I care uh board member Sinan board member Sagal Chair you have a quorum with three members present so we will call this meeting to order uh the first item that we have here is approval of the agenda do I have a motion I will move uh if I share citizens is our second second um all those in favor please say aye aye aye aye the motion passes unanimously um our next item is statements by the general public do we have any statements by the general public today okay then we have no statements there our next item is um taking a uh is a review of the we have two separate minutes to review first we will lead with the May 7th meeting um I'll give everyone a minute to review to make sure it's all good and then we will have the March 10th minutes after that that has been amended can I just take a note for the March minutes it is an amended um minutes to reflect uh a general conversation that we had absolutely can we take one motion to approve both sets of minutes or do we have to take two separate motions two separate because we need to note the amendment to the March yeah okay I'll go ahead and move to approve May 7026. Is there a second second this all those in favor please say aye aye that motion passes unanimously is there a motion on the March 10th amended minutes. I will move to amendment there a second seconded all those in favor please say aye. Aye aye so that motion passes unanimously and I will pass it over to Director King for her report. Thank you so much. Thank you chair the report uh the director's report chart will go through the third quarter of this fiscal year uh noting that there are six investigations currently open uh one of the requests for investigations was denied based on um the lack of of jurisdiction over that matter um we have 13 advisory opinions that were rendered in the last quarter uh which is an increase from the prior quarter at nine uh 36 routine inquiries 285 employees trained I will note that it's anticipated of course that that number will increase as the annual ethics training has launched uh in September uh and then the other numbers are fairly steady in terms of uh sub litigation advisories completed and contract compliance matters in terms of our training and outreach as noted our ethics annual training launched uh this year we have of course offices under the president cook county board of review the forest preserved district cook county clerk's office the cook county treasurer's office uh the circuit court of cook county and the um the clerk of the circuit court and the cook county sheriff's office are all participating in this year's annual training which is the most offices that we've had uh participate in annual training in recent years uh the majority of those offices of course are electing to take that training for their staff and uh we send out a few reminders in terms of prohibited political activity as we are of course within that uh 60 day uh prohibited political period before the election um provided some updated gift ban guidance with more clarity around the restrictions on acceptance of gifts and the reporting requirements to the board uh I will also flag uh that we did a number of other trainings uh and lunch and learns uh which we hosted for offices under the president uh and provided a refresher overview of the ethics ordinance and then of course a focus on those uh more applicable provisions like prohibited political activity uh and then also gifts that concludes the um also one fly their flag is that we are preparing to send the notice regarding our famili annual familial disclosures requirement to our vendors uh that will be going out uh later this month uh and then of course we'll have updates as we get closer to that deadline in terms of the number that are reporting um a quick question have we noticed obviously we we talked about this a fair bit during the primary season now that we are in the general election season has your office seen an uptick in questions about the ban or anything else since you sent out these communications thank you uh so we i don't know that we've seen an increase necessary in uptick around these i will note that general questions that we receive the majority of them are related to uh the gift gift restrictions particularly as it relates to um acceptance of invitations to conferences or coverage of travel for business meetings that is it there and if we though either of the other board members have any other questions about the director's report then at this point the language that oh happened So popular make it make the world on the guy. 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