thank you. >> commissioner brookter. >> so this is what happens when we talk about budgets. i wanted to bring it back. i had a couple general questions or at least one of the things from a statement standpoint what i would like to see is what we actually spend. i spend most of my day looks at budgets so i think being able to see what we actually spend versus what we are asking for in budget would be great to see. i also wanted to kind of understand too, how often do you all meet as a financial team? like overall. monthly taking a look at the budget and what we are spending, what our burn rate is? >> we have a budget monitor report that is provided to members and distributed to the department every month. >> okay. and i ask because i think that would be something if we could see quarterly, i think it would help us out if that's something we can actually take a look at. i'm also wondering too in terms of the budget itself. so we're asking for x amount of dollars to be fully staffed for the most part. but we haven't been there, we don't get there. so what happens to those funds

commissioner brookter is usually with me but he was called out of-of-of town this year. but i'm always really struck and moved by the beauty and just importance of those events, and it always makes me very proud to live here and to be part of this city and this community whenever i see brown voices singing the negro national anthem together. so it was impactful as always. >> commissioner dejesus. >> so the language access group met on tuesday. i was ill tuesday morning, but you can give a report. it was a very important meeting. they had maggie from the d.h.r. there discussing language certifications. if you can tell us what happened. >> thank you so much, commissioner, for keeping this on the ray dog -- radar. it was a really great to have this presentation by d.h.r. there's a number of hurdles in terms of just working out the mechanics, but essentially we were looking at, and it's been an ongoing issue is is there the opportunity for officers who already have proficiency in languages beyond the core languages, is there the ability to have them be certified so d.h.r., a

commissioner brookter is usually with me but he was called out of-of-of town this year. but i'm always really struck and moved by the beauty and just importance of those events, and it always makes me very proud to live here and to be part of this city and this community whenever i see brown voices singing the negro national anthem together. so it was impactful as always. >> commissioner dejesus. >> so the language access group met on tuesday. i was ill tuesday morning, but you can give a report. it was a very important meeting. they had maggie from the d.h.r. there discussing language certifications. if you can tell us what happened. >> thank you so much, commissioner, for keeping this on the ray dog -- radar. it was a really great to have this presentation by d.h.r. there's a number of hurdles in terms of just working out the mechanics, but essentially we were looking at, and it's been an ongoing issue is is there the opportunity for officers who already have proficiency in languages beyond the core languages, is there the ability to have them be certified so d.h.r., a

second quarter of 2019, i believe it was commissioner brookter that we complete executive summaries and add that to the e.i.s. reporting mechanism, so we've done that as of the second quarter of 2019. anything that we can get in improving the system is welcome, but i just want to point out per the general order, the e.i.s. was never meant to be a reporting mechanism of use of force. it's as you stated, one of the indicators. so i just want to state that e.i.s. is meant to be a performance review, and many of the things that go into these triggers are personnel records. we welcome transparency where it's legal to do that, but i did want to make clear that e.i.s. was not meant to be a reporting system. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: well, i think there can be a lot more clarity in the reports for this commission and the public itself and better understanding of how it's working. so for that, for the reporting requirements, i think we need to move forward. >> yes, and actually, i had that in my report, that we can provide better understanding for the ac

second quarter of 2019, i believe it was commissioner brookter that we complete executive summaries and add that to the e.i.s. reporting mechanism, so we've done that as of the second quarter of 2019. anything that we can get in improving the system is welcome, but i just want to point out per the general order, the e.i.s. was never meant to be a reporting mechanism of use of force. it's as you stated, one of the indicators. so i just want to state that e.i.s. is meant to be a performance review, and many of the things that go into these triggers are personnel records. we welcome transparency where it's legal to do that, but i did want to make clear that e.i.s. was not meant to be a reporting system. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: well, i think there can be a lot more clarity in the reports for this commission and the public itself and better understanding of how it's working. so for that, for the reporting requirements, i think we need to move forward. >> yes, and actually, i had that in my report, that we can provide better understanding for the ac