Board members present:
Chairman Polarek, Bowman, Feithen, Hanson, Leoni, Pettit, Riddle, and Suppeland. 

Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications,; Bob Brown. 

Also Present: Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator 

Chairman Polarek called the meeting to order at 7:30 AM 

Chairman Polarek introduced Ed Bowman, who has been appointed to the ETSB, by the County Chairman, to replace Greg Grandgeorge, who resigned.

 AGENDA
        The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  There were none.
A motion to approve the agenda was made by Suppeland and seconded by Riddle.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed. 

MINUTES
A discrepancy was noted in the previous minutes.  The time that the Board went to executive session should have read 8:32 AM instead of 8:52.  A motion to approve the amended minutes of the November meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Suppeland.  The motion passed. 

OLD BUSINESS:
¨      Treasurer’s Report:

1.      Treasurer Johnson reported that a CD valued at $430,000 is maturing on 12/7/01.  Suppeland made a motion to reinvest the CD into a 60-day CD.  Feithen seconded the motion.  There was no discussion.

A roll call vote was taken.  Bowman Y, Feithen Y, Hanson Y, Leoni Y, Pettit Y, Riddle Y, Suppeland Y, Polarek Y. The motion passed unanimously.    

2.      A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Leoni and seconded by Hanson.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.    

¨      Bills:

Verizon                                                                                   28.94

Verizon                                                                                   72.16

Verizon                                                                                  266.87

Verizon                                                                                    28.90

Verizon                                                                                  137.15

Verizon                                                                             1,6304.54

AT & T                                                                                  15.03

Language Line                                                                       254.30

DeKalb County Housing Authority- rent                                 200.00

NENA - Kross dues                                                                75.00          

NiComm - Sycamore.                                                              64.00

Starved Rock Communications - Fire antenna mounts             250.00

            Total                                                                                                     $17,696.89

A motion to pay the bills was made by Bowman and seconded by Leoni   A roll call vote was taken: Bowman  N  Feithen  N Hanson N  Leoni N  Pettit  abstain Riddle  N  Suppeland N  Polarek N.  The motion passed.  .

¨      Somonauk Fire Antenna - Feyerherm reported that there have been no reported problems with the antenna.  Lee Fire Department has complained that they have missed some pages in the last month. No specifics were given.  They are getting the nightly test.  Feyerherm said that this would be coming from the Waterman antenna, which has been stable with no problems. They will be asked to try to get specific failures

¨      Fixed Asset discussion -  Kross is developing a policy to address replacement of equipment, payment of maintenance costs for recorders, etc.

¨      Update on high rise antenna raising - Bob Brown displayed some photos he had taken of the Fire antennas and VoiceStream equipment on the roof of the Golden Years Plaza clearly showing that the VoiceStream equipment blocked the transmission of our emergency fire radio traffic.  He said that he had been in contact with representatives from VoiceStream, who agreed to reimburse the ETSB $2000 for moving their antennas up higher. 

A motion was made by Feithen to accept the $2000 as complete and final payment for the cost of moving our antennas.  Pettit seconded. There was no further discussion.  The motion passed. 

Feyerherm reported that the antennas have been raised and things seem to be working well.

¨      Update on replacement of Waterman fire antenna radios- Feyerherm reported that the new radios had been installed.  The old ones were dried out as best they could be and will be put in the DeKalb County Sheriff's Police radio shack for emergency replacement.

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests -

1.   DeKalb County Sheriff's Police requests authorization to purchase 6 MDTs @ $600 for a total of $3600.  This would come from their fund portion. 

A motion was made by Riddle and seconded by Feithen to approve the purchase.  There was no further discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.  

¨      P SAP Administrators' Report - After the last meeting, the PSAP Administrators met with Glenna Johnson and Deb Lilley from Verizon, who gave basic information on how our system works, and how the wireless system works. 

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor - No one appeared.

¨      Coordinator’s Report -

1.  Kross met with Warren Ossenberg, who is our insurance representative regarding our coverage and claims.  He will be preparing a policy for next year and present it to the Board.  The claims will be sent to the carrier for determination.

2. Kross reported that the State has sent additional checks for wireless reimbursement.  The first was for April 1, 2001 to April 30, 2001 for $14,179.94 and the second for the month of May 2001 for $18,436.11.   

ADJOURNMENT 

Suppeland moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 8:12 A.M. 

Respectfully submitted,

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Charles Kross, Coordinator