Kankakee County Board, IL Criminal Justice Committee Meetings, 13 May 2020

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Criminal Justice Committee Meeting 5/13/2020 7:30 AM

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Morning, I'd like to call the criminal justice committee meeting may 13.

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Mr. Swanson Breslin mr. long.

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Kirk Stroh Rosen.

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Wheeler prison. Mr. CRA, we have a quorum.

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Excellent okay with you, mr. Hess, if I run the meeting correct yeah deal the care to you. Thank you, sir, and maybe after we get going here, we can try this remotely and see if they, you know, maybe next month, if we're still here, we can see if you guys could run it from where you're at remotely I know that you could come in here always and run it. If you would like I, have no requests for public comment: approval of the minutes from March 11 2020. Their motion I saw mr.

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long and then a second for mr. Bern any questions. All those in favor say: aye same sign motion carries I. First up is under Chief Judge Michael Kramer. Do you have anything 15 for today judge.

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And you hear me: okay, yes,.

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Just wanted to fill you in on. What's going on over at the courthouse, we've been open since the crisis started or emergency matters, and we've been doing hearings remotely pursuant to a Supreme Court order that was entered back in the middle of March. That allows us to do that.

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It contained that Supreme Court order continued all other cases until a time that the court enters a new order, and they haven't done that yet, but we're anticipating that coming probably later this week, maybe next week, will allow us to resume normal activity. We're expecting that. That's going to happen here about June 1st and we're taking all the precautions necessary to allow state operation of our courts, social distancing, wearing masks, lots of hand sanitizer and really trying to limit the number of people that come into the courthouse.

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You don't want people there that are just there to spend time. You really need to have a purpose in being there so because the the space in the courthouse is limited. We also intend to attempt to try at least one jury. Trial sometime during June may not be on the 1st, but we would like to resume jury trials because we have people in jail that are awaiting their trial that we need. We need to move on.

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Obviously, as we've been slowing, our activity down to just emergency matters, there's been a backlog, that's built up, and so for the next several months after we've reopened, it's going to be quite a bit of activity here. The number of cases will be much higher than normal.

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We've had great cooperation from County personnel. I want to start with the idea. Kevin new ball and Jason Shane have really helped us in setting up remote court hearings, which we are allowed to do under supreme court rule that has kept us functioning. That's kept our specialty courts functioning drug court and veteran's treatment Court. We do that by zoom meeting and we call the participants each week.

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That's been a great help from the IT department also had tree Mendes help and cooperation from the sheriff's personality work here at the courthouse every day, exposing themselves to anybody that walks into the building.

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They have just been outstanding in helping people understand that we're in a crisis situation, and we need to take precautions and they've done that in a spectacle and professional manner every single day, since this crisis has started that cooperation doesn't occur everywhere, so I'm greatly appreciative to what we have in this county. Are there any questions about slowly resuming operations and I can answer for anybody.

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They have to be required to where they all masks. Are we providing a mass, hopefully they're, gonna have their own.

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That's a really excellent question. Mr. Snipes, yes, people coming to the courthouse: they have their own masks, we're not in the business of supplying. Obviously, if we did try so we're not providing masked as a routine matter now. That being said, obviously somebody shows up in an emergency situation that needs an order, protection numbers, you know immediately and they don't have a mask, we're gonna make sure they have a mass, so they can do their business in a courthouse safely, but routine routinely. We are not providing masks. We expect people to have their on bass.

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You other questions.

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What question on that? Your honor! Yes, what about defendants, people that have been in car serated? What they have access to masks.

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Absolutely the while they're in well sheriff could answer that, but they, the people in custody, are taking care of very well at the jail, as you know, had no cases out of the jail, which is a miracle. There's been just tremendous efforts there to separate new people coming into the jails, understanding and they're, taking every precaution that they can at the jail. So they've done a great job and we're not bringing people over from the jail to the courthouse.

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Lesson would be for a trial or something but we're doing things remotely using our da system. Yeah.

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I was thinking June, we're.

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Not through that jury, trial I've, obviously in June anybody entering the courthouse will have a mask on so that would include a defendant I will sing during during a trial. There will be people that have to take their masks off so that the court record and clearly ban them and watch their lips move. So they can make a record of the proceedings which is required, so the witnesses will be able to take their master. Obviously, it attorneys, while they're speaking, will have their masks off the judge.

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Well, speak people have passed, but other than that we expect everyone else be wearing masks.

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Well again, thank you, everyone for a very cooperation. We've got your courthouse. Like I said you can open and people come here every day and we're able to provide access to justice on an emergency basis, and we will do that.

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Thank you judge, have a quick question. Is the the work that's been going over haunt over there for a DA, and you know the steps in and and the circle Drive and everything and general recs chambers is that has that been cumbersome to work around, or has it been pretty pretty smooth and the overall operations chairman.

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I got to tell you that could happen it at a more perfect time. The warehouse activity is way way down because we're only doing emergency matters, so it just couldn't have come at a better time. There's really not many people approaching the courthouse. We have access from the front door, but the circle drive is a mess right now, I had to kind of make an effort to get into the building this morning, but that that project is coming along nicely.

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We expect it probably to be done by June, so we're rolling our self back into business here, but the work that's been done has not been disruptive at all one second for the 88 courtroom. That's essentially completed that happened without any disruption near the courthouse, so it's couldn't have come at a better time really good.

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Thank you any other questions for judge Cramer alrighty then. Thank you, sir. Maybe at the.

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A you to moving on circuit clerk's report sandy C on C.

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So I guess I'll just start the disbursement report, as you can see it's quite a bit lower than normal. Our deposits have been pretty light every day in comparison to normal.

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If you look at the Harris and Harris report, their collections have also decreased in keeping in touch with my representatives that work with Harris they have been taking on a more compassionate role when they are contacting the people, they're, really just checking in so people that owe the money they're just checking in with them and seeing how they're doing and if they can make payments or not that kind of a thought process.

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I do have a call with him this morning at 10 o'clock, so I'll see where we are and where we're going in the future. With you know what their plans are and then the state's attorney report, the collection report that one is down also it's these months, March April May, are usually our big months due to the tax returns. But you know people are just not bringing in their money, so they'll just have to see how it goes. You know in the next couple months.

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That's about all I have for that.

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It's already quite well, I guess, first I'll take a motion to accept the report.

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Second, mrs. Parker, all those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign all righty. Any questions for Sandy about those reports.

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Sandy I guess: what's the decrease in the revenue that's coming, but certainly at some point it's going to pick back up. Most of that is due to the fact that there's limited access to the courthouse, or why do we have like an online provision where they can pay online yeah.

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Yeah we do have a credit card third party credit card vendor, that is on the website that they can pay through and they can also pay with credit card through Harris and Harris. They call the number and do it over the phone and I think they also have a web link where you can pay that way too. So you know people are utilizing that but I'll swing this thing, that's about it for now, yeah there's ways to pay.

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Any other questions for Sandy I.

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Did have one say it is there? Is there a way to export the data that you have out of this system for cash book into Excel? So we can look at trends charted in Excel no month a month and take a look and see concerned, obviously with revenues as we all should be. Actually is there a way to draw draw some correlations based on you know where we were at the beginning of this year and then, where we're at now and then maybe going out the next few months, we.

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Actually are working on a report we, we are working with court view right now to get that X that activity to be done right now. So as soon as we're ready to go, I can let you know, and then we can pull any report and put it into Excel no problem actually.

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Yeah as long as we have raw data, we can start to graph that and look at trend lines. Yeah.

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We're getting to that point where we really need to know so. Yeah yeah.

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Was good timing actually that we did this.

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Then, as far as the computerization goes, we're still working with Tyler technology's court view and ourselves trying in the administrative office of Illinois courts, we actually have a call again tomorrow, we're still not integrated with the civil be filing project. It's been cumbersome to get it going. The last time there were glitches where that just popped up.

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When we were doing testing when Paula and my office was doing the testing, she would receive a file and all of a sudden it would generate like three files in you know new cases, rather than just the one that we needed so we're. Still. We don't know what happened there, but or I. Don't they do, and so hopefully we'll get this wrapped up and sometime this summer it would be nice to them be able to move on with the rest of the computerization that we're supposed to be doing.

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So that's about all I have right now.

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Anything else for singing be.

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I want additional questions, Sandy, those that are doing appeals. Have there been a lot. Are they still, of course, trended with the 30 day period or 30 five-day period? They would have to file an appeal well.

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People are filing their Appeals, but what's happening to his extensions, are being requested. You know from either side for whatever reason and yes so I mean it's all still moving fluidly. There's there's been no holdup with any of that.

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Already nothing else appreciate it. Sandy have a good day. Thank you. Next up is Jim row. Is there a motion to move him to the end, to make him wait.

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Hey Jim, do you have anything today? No, we.

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Do not have a grand jury report because we've not had grand jury since Marc uh-huh proceedings have been suspended, pieces Violent, Crimes felonies, no things that there's more of a sense of urgency with we're moving those the preliminary hearing, so we can get the cases filed, get the defendant before a judge set a bond other cases, though quite honestly we're holding off to the side and waiting on trafficking, because when we can't overwhelm the court system right preliminary hearings, those take a lot longer than a grand jury.

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Proceeding in some cases we're just gonna wait for grand juries to get going again that are sitting by the by the sky they they've been charged. Everything is prepped, we're just waiting to file them. Those may be things like a second offender retailed back. That would be a felony because it's a second offense, even though they may have been a small value item. So some things we're setting off to the side and waiting on we are still doing. Obviously, the aggravated domestics domestics are still going sex cases, anything with violence or vegetable.

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Any questions for Jim today there is no report.

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Jim- and it might be so sandy is still on- they can ask the question the whether I got a question from someone agree. What how can they access their trial dates because minimum cancer, the trial dates, have moved for and I guess there's some technology where they can access it from a website? Can you kind of give them that information, yeah.

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I mean circuit clerk's office sandy runs a court views then add online. Those dates are updated regularly, so they can con to tanki you just Google Ketchikan County Court view you'll decide you can look up anyone's criminal case I'm a traffic case by their last name, first name date of birth and that will give them every entry that's been put into the docket in the circuit clerk's office, but they'll see their next court date on there. The chief judge in every order, he's issued, there's been a schedule attached.

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That shows if your court date was on May 3rd, it's now July 3rd and it basically showed those continuance dates as well, and then you know they can always contact their attorney. Of course, a last option I would think you'd call the City Clerk's office. I, don't probably want sandy, probably doesn't want her phone's ringing off the hook, but she has made that option available to everyone as well. They can call her office and get their next court date and.

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People have been calling and it's not really been an issue. It's not been overwhelming, it's been, it's been decent. Actually people are doing really well with all of the changes.

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I saw this yesterday, the governor signed a law. It goes into effect, I believe July. 1St basically says that the state will no longer put a hold on someone's driver's license if they all fines to the state that are attributable to non-moving offenses. So fast, if you ou, define to the court, and it was for a non mover, you'd have a hold on your license that that would usually be the motivation to pay your fines so that you can get your license reinstated.

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The governor has suspended that so now. Anyone who has a driver's license suspended due to non-payment, but not moving violation, will have their licenses reinstated for the county. What does that mean? It means it's gonna, be a lot more difficult to collect fines on all of those bases, though- and just you know, another hit the revenue another way to put the cost in the criminal justice system under the taxpayers instead of onto the criminals and those who break the law just another.

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Another tough hit to take at a time when we can really least afford it.

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And they show public defender who night popped up on my screen, ed.

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I've considered to be a non moving violation so that people would kind of know if they were. We would against those tickets, and is there any way around that if those chickens are have been escalated to eight say like a DUI or some more serious offense, where you can attach it to that, Kate I mean at least two the fines when they have to pay. When you bring those cases before the court, what would be considered the non-moving violation and then again what ways could we probably attach it to their aggregate case?

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If that's possible, believe.

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Each ticket is a separate, separate, written right, so in the system each ticket would be a separate ticket or separately, as I should say, the one person being in one for unlawful parking. Try to find that speeding ticket that's gonna, be considered a moving violation. If you get a fine on parking, that's non-moving know so.

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The ticket for the speeding would still be would still have a hold on it. Yes,.

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Is no insurance considered non-moving I'd.

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Had to check fall into like registration vehicles, that's.

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A fairly common one I would imagine you would see.

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No insurance, you know at the higher yeah I had a question about sentencing, and you know Department of Corrections in Illinois is: are they? Are they still not accepting new prisoners in DLC? My.

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Understanding is that if you're in a County, Jail and you're sentenced to boc they're being held at the county jail, yeah tariffs could probably speak to that. But I believe that today, they're still not taking custody. They'll, see you, okay,.

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Lay the question.

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Is there is there just a follow up? Is there do they reserve enumeration? Do we get paid by the state from holding there.

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I believe there is.

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Okay, well, I'll save it to that I appreciate it. I think.

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Sees what's wrong with that.

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Question mr. Bourg yeah.

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The gym have you seen a rise in your office of domestic violence. Over the last couple months, we have and I actually had a meeting yesterday yesterday with Jenny Shane letter from Harbor House mm-hmm talked about that as well. They're, seeing a big uptick in hotline calls crisis calls we're seeing certain for cases coming through its army. Yes, it is turning I.

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Did have a follow-up Jim, something I thought, maybe for you do we have cases that are we're awaiting sentencing I'm just curious. Do we have any number of those in our courts being shut down? Is that a is there a backlog of sentencing cases? That'll have to be that'll go once we open.

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God I hope there there is a backlog and I certainly hope that those are some earlier ones. We can get get resolved and get out of our local jail. Oh good, yeah, there is a backlog. There was a backlog to be honest with you on sentencing or cold.

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Most of those, though, are getting we're bringing those over for sentencing because we have to if somebody is going to get sentenced, they are still bringing them over and it's still part of the system going on yeah.

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You know the chief judge, like he said at the beginning of his court house, has been open where we haven't been closed. It's just reduced operations, but substantive matters are still proceeding bond hearings in custody every day at 1:30. Preliminary hearings, sentencing hearings, I know what starting up on June 1st we're gonna start doing bench trials more sentencing hearings. Hopefully, then I'm getting jury trials polling here, less.

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Orders of protection have been, you know, he's steady as well.

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Okay, anyone have any other questions for Jim alrighty appreciative, YouTube, Nextup public defender at penwick, good.

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I know we filed the report May 11th, so when I address that first sure I.

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Me, though, you guys want to vote on it approve.

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It I'll usually hear it then we'll vote on it. That's.

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Method, correct mr. house by you: would you, as the the I guess the the true chairman of this committee? Do you want to hear it and then motion to approve after we hear the report.

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Discussion: okay,.

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Motion to approve alrighty did you get one all right, mr. carico and then mr. Snipes with a second and then discussion. Thank you and.

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Yeah, it's been a couple months: I apologize uh as you can see. We have moved some cases last month, 18 were resolved in plea agreement. One of them was a gentleman with multiple felonies. So looks like you know. We are definitely processing cases, not 18 individuals, but 18 cases we've been working remotely. One of my assistants just came in she sneaks in at 7:00 a.m. before. Anyone gets here and leave before I come in or if I come in.

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She immediately runs out of the office, but I appreciate it back she's here working now, I pretty much concur with what mr. Rowe says as far as what we're doing we're doing the not the minimum but we're doing the most essential work and we're continuing to do that and we've been working closely with the jail there's, no doubt about that trying to eliminate unnecessary court appearances to that nature.

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How much I want to talk this morning on how much you want to hear, but I've been amazed by how people have not been appearing in the courthouse, which is fantastic? That's been the goal the Chief Judge people are getting word of the continuances one way or another, and hopefully, when we come back to a full, full operation again that will they'll know to come back and and show up and not get warrants we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

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That's basically all I have at this point. If anybody has any questions.

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Any Andy nicely something yes, yeah I just want to say you know, I want to thank ed and the office everyone in his office. It's been great to work with. We we've been able to resolve a lot of matters to keep the you don't know. We see that kind of cooperation between prosecution and defense, but it certainly exists here and, and there you know being zealous advocates for their clients, we're fighting on our side as well, but it's it's just good to have that cooperation be able to spend and open lines of communication.

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So you know thank you. Thank you. Also to Sandy's office they've been great with Vanessa. It's an order, same thing to the Sheriff's Department.

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Just to dovetail that I agree, the preliminary hearings has been a substantial or substantive change on how the state's attorneys of processed felony cases and I've been getting all the reports in a timely fashion, I've been able to correspond with the assistant in charge and it's been going actually smoothly. So yeah things are going pretty well right now,.

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Any questions for ED R. We have a motion in a second for the report, all those in favor say: aye, aye aye, those opposed same sign all righty. Anything else said that you have for the group I'm.

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Sure says, but I know that if you go on the DLC website, the department person website, you will see the inmate from our jail. His picture is end. Date is out date, so to speak. I have noticed that they are not getting the usual credit. I have emailed the Department of Corrections this morning. Try to see what's going on with that, as far as uh you know, make a date for day credit plus additional credit they're, not getting that credit.

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Yet I'm, assuming it's a processing issue at Joliet, but that's something I need to look into I'm. Not the sheriff has an insight on that or not, but so far everything's been going pretty. Well, that's.

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All righty, um just just for my own knowledge, a lot of traffic cases, are those still moving at a normal pace. It's.

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Just doesn't care is.

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That, true, you know traditionally, is that always that high I, just hadn't jumped out of me before I am.

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Still relatively new to this, but that numbers been consistent. I know that I know the traffic. Kala is very hectic for lack of a better word and it's been you know. Obviously, colvett traffic as I've been swimming been less of a priority for the parties. The judges and everyone else would I'm sure it's slowed down the last six weeks, No go back and look at my prior filings to see how many cases get resolved on an average month, but that's pretty much been the number to my understanding for a while.

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Okay, let me assuming that the 285 is accurate I'm. It is, and that's that's a pretty good chunk of cases there. You know especially given cold it so awful. Looking at that one mr. wheeler sure.

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Yeah, and is that one of those that that people can zoom into the to the hearing, if you will or the traffic ones are they physically have to show up physically, have to show up? Okay, any other questions for ED already have a good day. Thank you.

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Moving on probation tom latham, I here's what the report can I get a motion on that one move on mr. leer.

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Second yeah: this is nice. Mr. Snipes alrighty go ahead down good morning.

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As you can see by the report, our contacts for April about 50% same time last year, we still have officers out at night in the community checking on people. However, all other contexts are by far we have officers working from home and the office every day and they're. All contacts are by the phone until how we, because in person scientists we're working on that right now, it'll be after June 1st at how we will do that.

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We're not sure yet, but two other statistics you can see the drug testing for last month was zero and no juveniles detained in the month of April to assets. We have four juveniles on GPS and ten dolls.

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We're ready any questions about the report.

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Already, all those in favor say: aye hi, those opposed same sign motion carries.

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The only other, let me do sure we're going to have going forward, is drug testing, how we can deeply let those samples working on several things right now.

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Obviously, we have to find something in some extent and, like I, said, with the in-person reporting, we're gonna focus on our high interest, population, ex-offenders, drug court and others, or even considering an option where I know. Many of you remember.

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Our Juvenile Division done are at the annex, used to be the treasurer's office and had there's a roll up window there that we have glass installed, that's in place now at some point we might start bringing people in to report through the glass and work out all the details, yet just an idea that that's I peer. Your face want to begin in person report I.

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Have a question about the drug testing since uh since legalization of Oakbrook and recreational and medical is that still on the drug test based on current court? You know orders and things like that of people on probation. Yes, it's.

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Still the order similar of our orders, we probably at five different probation orders- okay, three or four of them still allow the use of medical marijuana or alcohol or any marijuana. Okay. Yes, we do still test for it. It's on them.

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Any other questions yeah.

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There's one time along the same line of trying to thought: do you differentiate between those individuals that are under the age of 21? Who should not add that in the legalization quote-unquote of the marijuana versus those that are over 21? Yes,.

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Obviously it's illegal, just like alcohol would be for anybody under the age of 21, so we would handle the same way.

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Tom, have you heard anything about grant-in-aid or seen any disruptions yet.

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Yeah every two weeks, I have a call with administrative autonomic courts up. That's obviously, we've received our may in may it. Last week we received December grant made sore about five months. Behind it. Deal is usually about only about three months I.

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What it looks like for fiscal year: twenty two state fiscal year: twenty two well talking about that! There's going to be no change to our state fiscal year. Twenty one allocation next six months will stay the same. What happens for January to July? First, you should say that's what we're taught I'm sure, okay,.

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Any other questions for Tom and.

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Just one other question time was that worked in the educational system and some youth do not smoke marijuana, but their parents do because I go door-to-door might be Wednesday and Friday.

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Today, I will be doing it, there's a strong presence of marijuana, but because it's legal, it's legal, but some of the youth complains, because when the parents or other individuals out of age smokes it I'm gonna go to getting their clothes, but they're warning about a contact time, and the thing is, is that if they were on probation and was trying to comply with the law? And that happens, what? If anything, is in place so that they won't be charged unfairly or penalized unfairly? You know yes, something like that occurs. Well,.

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The test we our test will not pick up contact like that. They have to use the marijuana for to take on our test any.

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Yes, it's not gonna happen that way, even if they SAS close the vehicle with an individual smoking in for a while it wouldn't their system.

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Was the actual smoke? Yes, okay,.

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All right any more questions. Great thanks, Tom have a good day. Thank you. Moving on, we have the sheriff's report, Mike Downey, on his monthly report. Is there a motion to approve that while we get that, do we have it up on the screen?

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No, my car, do you have it on your computer you're able to share the screen or not?

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No, it's in the packet. Okay. We typically, we put it on the screen. So we'll do that next time, so the public can see the information it is available if people want to request it. So the sheriff his report is in the packet, so is it I'm sorry? Was there a motion in a second motion to or make the motion mom mr. Hess? Second again, mr. Swanson, all right. Moving in to the report, all.

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Right good morning, everybody, as judge Cramer referenced I, want to give you a quick update on Colvin and the issues that we're having here as of today.

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At this time there have been no known, kovat positive cases in our jail, including both inmates and staff, and we have no known kovat positive cases in our sworn division leader, not to say that that won't change, as as I've said before, and I probably told a number of you I, think it's inevitable with the number of people that we have as far as our employees and the contact they have away from this building.

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We are doing a lot of things to hopefully prevent and get it get out ahead of what we, what we hope won't happen, but, as I said, I think it's inevitable in with the number of contacts that people who don't, who aren't housed here have on the outside.

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In addition to that arrests in the county of not stopped, we are still looking in. In fact, since March the 20th, we have 168 felons into our Jail. Now we have done a lot of things early on to hopefully prevent Kovan from ever getting in here, but, as I said, I think it might be inevitable. We stopped all visitors in the second week of March really prior to everything, coming down from the state and- and so we were way out in front of limiting the number of people who came at our jail visitors attorneys.

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Basically everybody except employees and I- think that was a big help. Volunteers they didn't come in either we have been taking the temperatures of every employee walking into our building. We've limited access to our building to only one entrance, and so we've done a lot of things that we think have prevented this from entering into our facility.

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With that said, I think you, as a committee and the rest of the board and and those people watching, should know that our Corrections administration, including Chad kala, Windsor, Rob, Schultz and Marlin woods, have done an outstanding job of staying ahead of this and getting out in front of it. Early.

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Our medical department I've talked about our medical department, a number of times in the job they do and and I've talked to this committee about what how little care some people take of themselves until they get to jail, and they do an outstanding job of making sure that these inmates who get booked into our facility leaves better than when they came in, and that's a credit to our medical director, dr. Wong Mary Jo's tonight, or a nurse practitioner and Shannon Haggard they've worked tirelessly their entire staff to to help keep our staff and inmates healthy.

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Our maintenance department has done outstanding work in keeping our jail, sanitized, keeping our office building out here, sanitized and lastly, and probably most important, our Emergency Management Division, including lieutenant Andy basin and Becky Powell. They have worked with the state.

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They've worked with FEMA, we've had thousands and thousands of PPE delivered out here, of which we have shared in all parts of the county, including hospitals, churches, the veteran's home, just the name a few, so we couldn't be where we're at without the people that I just mentioned, our our entire staff has just done great work in in preventing this from getting into our building.

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So a lot of the report as I'm sure most of you have probably noticed and I'll just touch on a few things and we can expand from there. If you look back in April of 2019, that was the month after I went from duty, it was $80 to $90 today and last April. We brought in in housing alone, 1 million 64 thousand dollars in April of 2020. Our number was six hundred ninety-eight thousand two hundred light. So obviously this information has been shared with finance and they know where we are at revenue.

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Wise okay I will tell you that from a from a revenue standpoint, while this doesn't look good at this point, I think we stopped taking new ice detainees and new Marshal prisoners back about the time that we started taking temps and everything else. We didn't know what other facilities had and we didn't want another inmate or detainee from another facility bringing it in here.

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Will that cost us revenue absolutely but long term I think it will ultimately be cheaper to prevent covin from getting in our Jail, affecting our staff and detainees, then continuing to bring in outside people to just increase our revenues.

L

We truly believe, based on the conversations we've had with ice and the marshals, that our numbers, once everything somewhat opens back up, that our numbers will increase significantly.

L

Questions on that.

G

Sheriff, mr. chairman,.

A

G

Sheriff I know, revenues are down by I. Assume transports probably also are down, so some of your expenses would be down there. Well,.

L

Transports are down. So, if you look in, if you look at the transport line for April of of 2020, we did 33 total transports. Those transports included medical transports, nine transports out of County, which meant we probably had to go pick up. Somebody who had a warrant we've made 13 transports to the courthouse, and we made three transports for ice and that ice transports. Those ice transports were to the airlift, so those were individuals who are being recorded.

L

We are still transporting inmates over to the courthouse only for those getting sentenced so because they, the inmates, have that right to being in front of the judge in person when they're getting sentenced. If they choose to do so, they can waive it. But as most do they figure they're gonna, get a ride and check out the scenery outside of the jail, so a lot of them, don't waive it. So, yes, our transports are down, but remember the majority of our transports, mr. leer.

L

We are reimbursed for so that includes additional money, so yeah we're not getting reimbursed for it, but we're not. We.

C

L

The expense either, so it's it's somewhat of a wash at this point.

A

We have questions about the report. I haven't.

C

Done it mr. chairman, yes, I noticed that on the transport to the juveniles you had 27 in March and zero in April right.

L

Yeah, those are those are, what cost us money. Yeah, there's no reimbursement for those, no there's no reimbursement for those.

F

Staff when it comes to the discretion in non-discretionary non-scratch made pickups are those in the littles that you just have to pick up, and you don't know what is out there, and so therefore they address, because they are part of the first responders. However, with the ice, there is a little discretionary as you have stopped, taking and I need to know going forth, has ice put in any cost.

F

Precautions asked to in their policy procedures as to them testing individuals prior to you receiving them is anything being discussed in that agreement.

L

Not at this point only because we're not you know we're not taking new ones, so you know what they choose to do going forward will be certainly up to them, but but we do work with them. Free I mean I still stay in contact with them weekly to you know, to work together with them so that we can come to some solution. They're looking for housing, I mean they're still looking for housing, and you know there.

L

There are too many facilities out there and for those of you that may watch this Chicago news, you probably saw the I think it was on channel 7 about the MCC and the number of people up at the MCC, which would affect the federal inmates, which is why we don't take them, because a lot of them are coming from the MCC.

L

So ice is looking for beds and at this point we are just holding off because again we don't know what we're getting right.

F

So I was saying that procedures far as testing they testing or doing anything to catify I. Don't.

L

Well, I, don't believe so because they're not housing them. There are others too hot on the street. They probably haven't been caught, yet we're not testing the ones we have in our custody.

L

But we also don't have anybody who has any symptoms either so right.

A

Alrighty with no more questions, I guess we have a motion a second on the report. Well,.

L

I get I got more from the report just to come.

A

L

Just just briefly, one thing of importance: I think our locals have actually gone down a little bit in all this, although, unlike the state of Illinois, we didn't just release them willy-nilly.

L

So last year we average about 267 in April this year, we're down to 249.

I

Little work on getting those numbers back up for you.

K

L

Our side, if you check out the calls for service for this year compared to last year, our calls for service of actually more than double, so our guys are still out there working.

L

You know in working hard, and it is mr. Snipes referenced. They too are on the front lines of this, not knowing at some point. You know what they're walking into so a couple things to note, though civil process paper services down significantly.

L

Obviously, there's no court, so there was no sense in serving papers for court dates that are in May and June or May in April in May. If there's no court, so we didn't serve those there's, no sheriff's sales, no addictions. So those are there's significant reasons, definite reasons for those numbers being down have.

C

You seen a rise in domestic violence without.

L

A doubt yeah without a doubt, in fact, the the reports we get there almost daily and in the arrests that we see and I know. Mr. Byrne is referenced at a couple times, but some of the things you don't see our things that calls that we go to houses where they may have been verbal and one person left to go, live with somebody else, the night or whatever, and there was no arrest mate. So those are significantly increasing in that, as mr. Roe referenced is somewhat troubling great.

L

Talk a knobbed Oh mr. chairman motion,.

A

To approve the report well,.

F

We already got the motion all.

C

Those you answered motion yep.

A

All those in favor say aye opposed same sign, alrighty.

L

I'll address a couple questions that came up between mr. Fenwick and mr. Roy over Illinois Department of Corrections, so part of the governor's executive order is that the Illinois Department of Corrections is not taking sentenced. Inmates from county jails are sheriffs. Association has has worked hard to work out some form of reimbursement for those who are still in our custody, who should be in the only Department of Corrections.

L

As of today, we have 15 inmates who have been sentenced, who should be in Illinois Department of Corrections, so right now, although I don't know that it's officially signed but right now, the agreement is that if you have an agreement with the federal government to house their prisoners, they will honor that cost. So right now, the only Department of Corrections will reimburse us $90 per day for those that we have in custody.

I

L

Couple things is that retroactive, that is, retroactive back to the day of the governor's executive order. Thank you. So now, hey I have a couple thoughts on that and unfortunately my first thought is my guess is that we won't get a dime for the state of Illinois for doing that. That's just a guess that is my own opinion. I just can't see them paying for us to house their prisoners. In spite of. What's going on, we have had to answer mr. Prentiss question.

L

The state of Illinois has all the inmate information, the sentenced, inmate information, and we have actually had the state of Illinois. Do C come here and actually release somebody from our custody. Actually, they were being released from the only Department of Corrections, but they walked out of our building because they'd already served their time.

L

So they are well aware of the dative sentence. You did length of sentence and then they calculate the time there once once an inmate leaves here after he's been sentenced, our judges, our state's attorney our public defenders, our the sheriff's office, has nothing to do with calculating their time served. That is all strictly along Department of Corrections, which is the reason that they're able to release people that they've the 4,000th they've released because of his Colvin, some of which have already committed other crimes elsewhere, which was pretty predictable, but that's a whole nother story.

L

Now the scary part about Illinois Department of Corrections not taking sentenced inmates. There has been talk over over the past few years. It's never gotten any traction, but this may give it the traction it needs, and that is that, right now, if you're convicted of a felony and sentenced to more than a year, you go to the Illinois Department of Corrections in some states already and in Illinois. We'll probably push this to lengthen that number. So there may be legislation.

L

This is probably just a precursor that I'm changing this to where anybody sentenced less than three years will now spend their time in the county jail that again. That is strictly a guess, but knowing that we're doing this, now, that's probably the direction that the state of Illinois is heading, just FYI, better.

C

Build out the third section of the jail, if.

L

You give me twenty million dollars we'll do it tomorrow.

G

L

Any questions on that I only have a couple other things. Real, quick I already mentioned that since March 20th, we we've had 168 new felony arrests in our building. Some are still here some year release some post bond and so that number I would imagine will continue. And, lastly, we have through our Corrections division and those of you that are familiar with thinking for a change, not so much the individuals that are in our custody, but there's a thinking for a change group that are out of custody.

L

We actually have sewing machines and they are in the process of learning how to make masks.

I

L

They have made some it's a slow process right now, only because they're learning how to do this. We expect that to pick up as they get more familiar with it, but we are making face masks that at some point we hope we can distribute to those in need- and you know benefit everybody, because I'm sure we're going to be wearing masks for for quite a while.

L

So and that's really all I have.

A

Anything else there for questions for the sheriff. It's everything I, the animal control sheriff this timer, sir.

L

Yeah, we'll control still operational they're still responding to calls. We are working normal hours and things have gone pretty well out there we did have maintenance, come and cut the grass yesterday, so we eliminated the cost for an outside service. To do that, so nothing, nothing major! Okay,.

A

All righty with that any other questions from the group already have a good day. Hey. Thank you guys, all right. Moving on corners report from Bob Gesner, he has a monthly report deserve early reports. Plural sir motion to approve his reports. Mr.

K

A

This is Parker floors. Yours Bob, all.

M

Right, thank you good morning, everybody, our statistics are going up, as you can probably see, I don't know if they have that sheet up on there and know.

A

Everybody's got it in their package; we don't have it up on the screen.

M

Like I say, our call numbers have gone up, our odds have been going up since any, not just the Kovach 19 I'm talking about overdoses and I'll, get into that other than that I'll. Let I'll! Let you ask me any questions. If you have anything on that on the summary of March and April any.

A

Questions on the coroner's reports.

G

Bob, would you care to comment on what's being talked about in terms of listing cause of death.

M

For the for the Kovach 19, yes,.

G

M

Well, I'll give you an update that I have, as of as of yesterday, we've had 615 deaths and Anki County this year, 37 of them been Kovac 19 related deaths. A death is considered a Kovac 19 when it's related, when a the primary physician or the corner of the Kovac 19 list is that as the cause of death or as a contributing cause of death to this date, the doctors have signed 34 out of the 37 and I've signed. Three I've heard a number of questions.

M

Through your other meetings there and, like I, said a lot of it. There's a roughly two four six, eight ten twelve right an hour just playing Kovac 19's, but most of them are due to pneumonia and other causes of death because out of 37 deaths, 38 percent of the deaths have been under under the care of hospice.

M

54 percent of the deaths have occurred in long-term care facility. The average age is at 79, youngest is at 48. The oldest we have is at 97, there's been 16, males and 21 females. 84 percent of the deaths have been Caucasians, 11 percent African American and Hispanics they're out of the 37 deaths. There has been 3 that died in our County but from outside the county. So that's why we're different from the Health Department in that way? Does that help you in any way Thank.

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K

Chairman, yes,.

A

Miss Parker I just.

K

Want to say to mr. gasner thank you for sharing those stats on Facebook for the public that really helped a lot for them to see. Those numbers I really appreciate that and we'll.

M

Continue to do that. Thank.

K

M

I just want to mention, because back in 2017 I always complain always talking about Odie's. Well, Odie's are back up again, I, don't know if that's because of the stimulus for quick deaths the other day when everybody got their their money, it's it's a factor. I think is that I use in the in the Odie's we're up 10 right now on Odie's and 2019. If we go the way, we are we're. Gonna attack that 56 and I hope we don't I hope it goes down.

M

I can't get out do as much education as I did before, but I think those are the factors we're still an average age of 44 years old, we're still 14 in the females or six. We are. We are 20 cases right now or for our pending and we're definitely know that those are going to be again we're hitting the cause and I'm keeping track of the fentanyl is a big drug out there and continually being the big drug, but it's being mixed.

M

We just had a case just just received yesterday on my death that was cocaine and fentanyl. Well, you know when that mixture. So that's my feelings on that. It's a concern to me again with my staff, just like the sheriff said about his staff. I commend my staff to try to keep safe out there when they go into these houses and again our morgue is updated and cleaned.

M

At all times we haven't had to do any autopsies on Kovach 19 cases, because the CDC does not want to do one, but we don't have a pressure, a negative pressure room for autopsies, there's only one in the state of Illinois and that's a condom. So I'll ask you why there isn't any autopsies or I heard the other day? Why don't we see an autopsy report? That's the reason why there's not autopsies being downs.

A

All right, the.

F

Other questions about the report.

A

F

That was my question because I know when I inquired they stated that to do an autopsy or basically have a pathologist or medical examiner to assess it and actually describe it. It would be like $700 per person, and that was just that would be a cost there, that if they tested every one and gave that type of cause of death on a pathology report, it would be just astronomical. So they just separately, you know, take the doctors word or I guess the corners word as to if they were tested colder, that it was correlated.

M

We keep a pretty good eye on that. It is a scary factor when you do autopsies out here, because you really don't know they do have they ever been tested for it. So we keep well updated on that and we keep protected.

M

I have a rule out there and we've eliminated a number of people that go into the autopsy room. Awesome.

A

Alrighty any more yes,.

C

A

We have the motion in the second. All those in favor of approving the report say aye motion. Those opposed same sign motion carries anything else. Mr. Gastner.

C

Mr. chairman, yes, sir I have a question for mr. Geffner: okay Bob. Is there any.

C

Well, you just drew a blank on rings,.

F

C

For any more of your training, like you've, been doing you've been able procure 80 grams.

M

Yes, sir, we're working on that right now with the health department, we are working on that grant. We hopefully do to get into they're enough money again to continue to do this narcan program. So we've had a number of saves out there from the law enforcement. We're very pleased with that, but we we still are pursuing a another great BP advice.

M

C

A

And something related to that. It's more public safety related connected with the Health Department I've we've applied for a grant that could potentially pay for some more tracers people have traced down kovat positives, and so we can start to work through those a lot quicker, maybe increase capacity. But it's somewhat related to public safety, but I thought I've mentioned it here and I'll definitely bring it up an executive at the end of the month. It'd be nice. If we use some extra help for a health department.

A

That said, one limiting factor is to be able to trace those people down and move quickly doing it under anything under new business. Anybody have new business chairman. Yes, mrs. Parker chairman.

K

To continue with the agenda, are we going to go back and approve the minutes from March before we look into new business? Sure.

A

I thought we approved it, but we did okay Kelly's got it that we approved it. Okay,.

K

A

Right, I must have dozed off I'm. Sorry, your motion to approve the approval, no I'm just kidding. No thanks forget for catching that any other new business stuff old business already. Is there a motion to adjourn I'll.

C

A

Motion and a second from mr. long, all those in favor, please say aye aye- is that Jim, those opposed same sign motion carries have a good day.