Cook County Board President Requesting Community Input For Third Term Goals

Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, is working to create a Policy Roadmap that will be a comprehensive policy driven strategic plan for the Offices Under the President. Members of her staff hosted the first Policy Roadmap Community Meeting in Bronzeville recently to receive input from residents about what they want to see happen in Cook County over the next four years.
Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, is working to create a Policy Roadmap that will be a comprehensive policy driven strategic plan for the Offices Under the President. Members of her staff hosted the first Policy Roadmap Community Meeting in Bronzeville recently to receive input from residents about what they want to see happen in Cook County over the next four years.

Cook County Board President Requesting Community Input For Third Term Goals

BY KATHERINE NEWMAN

Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, hit the ground running after being elected to serve a third term. She is working to create a Policy Roadmap that will be a comprehensive policy driven strategic plan for the Offices under the President. Members of her staff hosted the first Policy Roadmap Community Meeting in Bronzeville recently to receive input from residents about what they want to see happen in Cook County over the next four years.

“The goal of the Policy Roadmap is to make sure we have one comprehensive plan. There are at least five bureaus under the president and they all have their own strategic plans of what they want to accomplish and this will include those but also include our broader goals,” said Lanetta Haynes-Turner, Deputy Chief of Staff for President Preckwinkle.

The brief presentation given by Turner at the Bronzeville meeting explained the six core areas where the Cook County Board will focus its policy for the next four years.

“It will focus on six broad policy areas that have been an essential part of the presidents administration and that we feel strongly that we need to make sure that, while we have already had some accomplishments, we want to take it to the next level and lay the infrastructure for long-term change,” said Turner.

The Office of the President is looking to create healthy, open, sustainable, vital, smart, safe and thriving communities with the Policy Roadmap. To do this, they need residents’ input on what they want to see in public health care, economic development, environmental justice, sustainability, public infrastructure, and criminal justice.

“I think the most important part of anything that I’m going to say is that we want the Roadmap to reflect your ideas and your suggestions for the services that are important to you or need improvements or the policy areas that you really think that the county either has done well or there are opportunities for the county to consider,” said Turner

This was the first of many community meetings and there is a community survey on the Cook County website that is available for people who can’t attend the community meetings.

Once complete the Policy Roadmap will be available online. Residents will be able to look at every strategic aspect of the plan and it will be updated regularly to show what kind of progress is being made, according to Turner.

“We are being very intentional about how we distribute the final Policy Roadmap. It will be posted on our Cook County website and broadly accessible to the public. We will push it out through our commissioner districts and we will also be putting into place a public dashboard so you can click on each goal that we set and see what our progress is on that at any given moment,” said Turner.

For a full list of upcoming community meetings and to access the online community survey visit www.cookcountyil.gov/service/policy-roadmap.

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