A Sawyer County staff member updated the Public Safety Committee on Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) items, including the formation of a small executive committee and plans to seek reinstatement of two grant programs.

Mike, speaking for CJCC, said the advisory body created a preliminary executive committee including Julie Lyons, Judge Elaine Smith, Kathy McCoy and Bruce Pochett and that the committee may expand. He said the committee recommended writing resolutions for two grants, Building Bridges and Reaching Rural, both of which had funding stopped in late April.

"They're both kind of supplemental programs to what we're already doing. The building bridges is more of a mental health AODA help and the, reaching rural is for opioid reaching out to people in rural areas where population density is not quite there," Mike said. He added that none of the money for those programs had been spent and that CJCC planned to send resolutions to the legislature asking for reinstatement.

The resolutions will go to CJCC and then to the full county board for consideration.