Good Afternoon,
We would like to start off by saying thank you to everyone that has been sending in reports about their worksites and what is happening specifically with any progress on virtual hearings. As we stated our target date for virtual across the county is Monday. Obviously contact your assigned board member with the status of this on Monday. This weekends CBC should be all virtual so we will be monitoring how that goes.
If you are working CBC this weekend and need hand sanitizer, there is some on 7 in the break room. If you need a refill contact a board member for the location. There have been pirates about, I know not from our office, but they are about. If you need more in other locations please let us know and we will order more.
We have not heard back from the CJ’s office today as of this writing. That’s why we are asking about what you in the courtrooms were seeing with regard to the virtual set ups. Council 31 has been pressing them all day and we will continue to press them through the weekend for a Monday launch countywide.
Sidenote: The President just started talking as I’m writing this so I might be getting stupider as this email goes on. Sorry now.
We sent the letter for HIPPA release exemption last night to the Council and will be pressing the offices listed for that info as well.
Please send us info on how the suburbs and FTD are handling the cases outside of the expedited bond hearing criteria. We have heard many members concerns on this, many have provided incredible researched and insightful material on this and our responsibility as attorneys on this issue. We are working on it this weekend; we may not have an answer for you, but it is on our radar and we will be discussing in at our board meeting.
You should have received an email in your work email about extended sick time off policy for the county if you have COVID related issues. If this helps please feel free to obviously follow it, if you have questions contact your assigned board member for a work around if needed.
As we get more information, we will continue to send it out and as you get more information.
All of you have been remarkable during this crisis. You have been asked to do incredibly important work under difficult circumstances at best and straight up chaotic at just off best. We have been working as best we can to ensure that you are safe during this time and so many of you have reached out to us with support. You have been telling us how you are doing and feeling and asking how we are holding up.
The board’s last electronic board meeting, we had a bit of a happy hour. It was a two-martini late lunch as such. We are all holding up well, and we are all supporting each other, and our spirits are high. The issues you send us only feed our fire to pursue these issues for us all. Thank you for your wonderful emails, text and calls showing us your thanks and support. We all really appreciate them, and they really keep us going.
The person in the White House just went into freestyle mode and I can feel myself getting dumber by the second. I am signing off before I forget how to type.
Stay Safe
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Kevin OchallaPresidentLocal 3315