City of Evanston, IL 9th Ward Meetings, 8 Feb 2023

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Okay: okay, we are off and running, welcome hello um Bienvenidos. uh My name is Juan karakattis, the council member for the ninth ward of Evanston. Thank you for coming here and um coming to the award meeting. um As always, we have our interpreter Celia carlino here.

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uh We will record, be recording this session and it will be available on the city's YouTube channel in the upcoming days.

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So we will um be starting off with our guest speakers for the evening. Please type your questions in the chat and what we'll do is address those at the end of the meeting. We will um do our main presentations um and then stop the recording, so we can have a more freeform discussion afterwards.

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Our first special guest is Jared Davis from commissioner Jacina Marita's office I will hand things over to Jared.

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Okay, uh thank you very much uh council member Juan and thank you Celia uh good evening. Everyone um you all heard just who I am so I won't make Celia do more work by saying it again.

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And thank you all for allowing me to crash your meeting. I am here to introduce our newly elected Cook County Commissioner Josina Morita.

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Commissioner moritza is the newly elected commissioner in place of Larry suffernden, who was our commissioner for the 13th District for 20 years.

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My title is deputy director of commissioner morita's office and I am a direct liaison to the Evanston Community, where I grew up.

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So I wanted to let everyone know that in case you didn't know some of the functions of the county.

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Cook County manages the county court and jail system.

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La Corte La Corte is.

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We manage the health and Hospital Systems hospitals.

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We manage the forest preserve systems.

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And, of course, everyone's favorite are Cook County taxes.

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So I would like to just touch on a few of Cook County Commissioner Marita's initiatives for her first year policy.

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The commissioner is very passionate about environmental justice and comprehensive land use policies. Ambiente.

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Inclusion and language access policies.

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She's very passionate about collecting Asian America uh Asian American data, which has never been collected before.

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That is partially because she is the first Asian-American woman to hold the seat of Cook County Commissioner on the board.

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Commissioners,.

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So that I can keep my promise to council member Juan I will let you all know about our grand office opening which will be happening. This Sunday.

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So I will put it in the chat so that you can retain it, but it will be this Sunday. The 12th 1pm at 908, Sherman Avenue.

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We hope that all that can attend will come out in person to see our new office and meet commissioner Morita and our staff and again, thank you very much for the time during your award meeting.

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I will also put my contact information in the chat for anybody that needs to retain that, as well as the information for the office opening on Sunday. Thank you again.

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Thank you so much Jared I will see you on Sunday. um I might be there at 1, but I will definitely stop by sometime during the opening. Thank you.

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In English.

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Excellent, thank you so much. We.

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Go um onto our Ninth Ward report from Evanston, Police, Department and I. Don't know, um I see uh Sergeant Brown as well as officers, Galindo and Brooks.

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Somebody else too, did you say another name.

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Sergeant Brown um officer, Galindo and officer Brooks, okay,.

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Official Brooks.

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Yeah good evening, everybody, my name is Officer Galindo. Thank you for everyone for having us. uh I am company right now by my sergeant I'm. Sorry, if you want to translate see.

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Please remember yes,.

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Okay, uh these stats that I'm going to read uh radar are from December 8th 2022 to February 8th 2023.. uh The stats read uh five batteries reported a burglary to Motor Vehicles, one motor vehicle theft, a total of seven deaths, four of which are retail and three are parts to vehicles.

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Okay, I will I will I will need a little reminder. Okay,.

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So how's that okay.

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And then what was the other day December a until.

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Smell okay and monster needles did Cinco, you say Phi.

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Five: five batteries.

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Cinco battery, yes,.

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To Motor Vehicles.

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Ocho foreign.

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A total of seven thefts.

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For which are retail.

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And three are parts of vehicles.

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uh Those are stats that I was provided. They were provided to us from the time period of December, 8th to February, 8th.

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Saw a couple hands up.

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I think you're, muted, Juan.

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I should know how to do this by now officer Glendale, um so I had I was hoping. You could share some information about um the new police, again Academy program that folks are heading up.

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Problematically.

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uh Yeah absolutely yeah we're very excited, well we're very excited to have our very first uh ever uh Citizen Police Academy in Spanish.

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uh This is going to be in Spanish, we kind of uh did rename it to be named, uh which says for Academia.

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We are almost full, so I believe there's just a couple spots open. So if you are interested in joining I would highly encourage you to uh apply to Evanston Police website and I believe the deadline is February 15th.

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And once again it will be provided all Spanish by officers, that was the police department. And if you want to translate that.

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Great, thank you all for coming. um We don't have any other questions. I will proceed to some Ninth Ward um notes.

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First, we'll start off with a little bit of um kind of bookkeeping type things.

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So I've received some feedback from residents um who don't use social media um that they feel a little bit left out about getting some of the meeting updates that I post on social media.

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So um I met with our Communications Department and we've come up with a plan to address that.

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um Staff has limited bandwidth, which is why we have the bi-monthly long newsletters.

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So I will be working on sending out short email updates similar to the email you folks got about the meeting happening today.

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um I will also be putting my meeting notes from the different committees links to PDFs of the Recaps and votes.

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Very very Wednesday.

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So um some of the other feedback I received was um about in-person meetings and.

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Information recommendations.

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So I will be continuing having the main informational award Meetings online, so I, so that they can be recorded.

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Information is a foreign.

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But I will be adding kind of working meetings with local neighborhood groups to kind of tackle specific topics and issues.

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So, for example, um the hartree cleanup efforts I will be scheduling a in-person meeting in the neighborhood in the upcoming weeks to do brainstorming.

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And we will be discussing um the recent development that Aldi will be promises to put up a fence in the in the springtime.

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And we'll brainstorm, what um I want to hear what residents want to have happen in the area and what um the priorities and next steps would be.

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Look away so recommendations.

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um Similar effort, um similar kind of situation, has been brought to my attention regarding parking around the crown neighborhood.

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We've had some good discussion via email, but I think it'd be great to meet with Nick Neighbors in that community and get more feedback. How we can better the parking situation and and find Solutions.

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So um be on the lookout for the short emails with um meeting dates for those two uh I guess we can call those working groups and those will be in person and I hope um to see the neighbors there at those.

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Great um I think if everyone's okay um I think I will stop the recording and we can have just um I I didn't see any questions in the chat. But we can um you can ask questions or um I think we will leave the recorded portion at this and we can have um a discussion with anyone who who wants to.

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Okay and I think we have a first question for and I'm Lenny are you? Okay? If we stop the recording whatever.

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You want to do so.

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