Um, the Thursday, September fourth of the citizen review board is now in session.

Um, so um we're gonna do the attendance, Alice.

Uh, Linda present.

Uh Ada?

Here.

Mike?

Here.

Harry?

Here.

Peggy?

Here.

And Samy has been excused absence.

The first thing on the agenda is has everyone had an opportunity to review the um August minute.

Oh my gosh.

You can tell I don't sleep deprivation.

Um, has everyone had an opportunity to review the um August meeting minutes?

So I need to get a motion on the floor to adopt those minutes.

Unless we have some discussion or someone uh disagree with the minute.

No, I love the way they're set up.

Okay, thank you.

Very nice.

Um I'll move it.

Okay, we have a motion on the floor to accept the um August main uh minutes.

Um can we get a second?

Second.

That's been moved and second uh in the discussion.

All in favor?

I have it.

Motion uh to accept the uh August meeting is passed.

We'll get those posted on the web uh tomorrow.

Um so um next thing on the agenda is the chairman report.

Um last week I met with um uh councilman Marty um who has suggested a new board member.

Um we are now and then I also sent out a letter to um uh a prior board member advising them that um he was being removed off of the uh board because of absenteeism.

Um and so we'll be having the new member.

Um uh councilman Joel Majoke has also um has a uh new member that will be coming to the board.

So we'll be one shy of having back a full board.

So once those um the council has voted on on Cho Majoke's uh pick, so um I'll be meeting with that individual sometime next week.

They'll bring them up to the par on the requirements for the board.

Um, and then once the uh we get the letter back from um Olivia, we will then be moving forth with uh bringing the second board members on, and then um we'll get the third board member hopefully before the end of September, and we'll be at a full operating board by then.

So um other than that, that's about all I have to report.

Uh just been a busy uh month in the office, and I'm gonna turn that over to um oh um I'll turn that over to Nalita and she can um give you the background of what has taken place at the uh CIB office.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Um as Don said, we've been extremely busy throughout the month of August.

Um, but we have definitely been out in the community.

Don Johnson has gone um to the jazz and the city, which was held at various places, so he wasn't just at the the one place, but he uh went to a few.

I've accompanied to uh one at least one of them.

He was also present at Hanover Thursday that was hosted by Pamela Hunter.

He also attended the Comptroller's Breakfast at the Marriott, and he has been at the Pan African village at the state fair.

He was there for all 13 days.

So we got a chance to um hand out brochures and things like that to let the community know that we are here and we're up and running again.

Uh our next thing, my next thing on my report is we have eight new cases.

Well, 10 new cases that came in.

Eight of them were specifically addressed for the Syracuse PD.

Um, one case was not, and it was turned over to Anthony Heard, um, the human rights specialist for Anadaka County, because it was dealing with the deputy sheriffs.

One of the cases is going to be a joint effort.

Um it had the Syracuse Police and the Sheriff's Department together.

Uh, and there was a complaint that was made.

So we will be working closely together to try to um solve that case or at least go through that case together.

Um CRB sent out 57 letters to close out the 2023 cases that was passed the allotted time of the 18 months.

Out of the 57, 15 was returned.