Board members present:
Chairman Polarek, Vice Chair Olson, Feithen, Hanson, Riddle, and Suppeland.

Guests Present: Larry Maddox, DeKalb Police Department, Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications. 

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

Chairman Polarek called the meeting to order at 7:33 AM.

AGENDA

The Chairman offered several additions to the agenda.  The audit report was added to the Treasurer's report, the VoiceStream Wireless agreement, and a report from Jim Feyerherm on the backup PSAP change.

A motion to approve the agenda as amended was made by Olson and seconded by Riddle.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed. 

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the December 2000 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Suppeland.  The motion passed. 

TREASURER'S REPORT:

¨      Treasurer Johnson presented the Sikitch-Gardner audit of FY 99.  A motion was made by Suppeland, and seconded by Hanson, to accept the audit.  There was no discussion of the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.  

¨      A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Feithen and seconded by Olson.

The motion passed.  

BILLS:

      VERIZON                                                      8499.55   

VERIZON                                                          28.78                                    

VERIZON                                                          28.82

VERIZON                                                          74.76                                

VERIZON                                                        311.15                              

AT&T                                                                  4.00

Sprint                                                                 12.34                                       

Language Line                                                   262.17

NIU  - Mapping                                             3,250.00

Starved Rock Communications - Fire radio        375.00

NiCom - Sycamore                                             89.95

NiCom - Sycamore                                            840.00

NiCom - Sycamore                                             80.00

Sikitch-Gardner - 2000 audit                              455.00

Sikitch-Gardner - 2001 audit                              300.00

            Total                                         $14,611.52

A motion to pay the bills was made by Olson and seconded by Hanson. 

A roll call vote was taken: Feithen   Y  Hanson Y  Riddle  Y  Suppeland  Y   Olson Y  Polarek  Y.   The motion passed unanimously.

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Election of Officers - The Chair opened nominations for the offices of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Secretary.

1.      Feithen nominated Polarek for the office of Chairman.  As there were no other nominations, Olson moved to have the record show Polarek was elected by acclimation.  Riddle seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

2.      Polarek nominated Olson for the office of Vice Chairman. As there were no other nominations, Suppeland moved to have the record show Olson was elected by acclimation.  Feithen seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

3.      Hanson nominated Suppeland for the office of Secretary. As there were no other nominations, Olson moved to have the record show Suppeland was elected by acclimation.  Feithen seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.    

¨      Somonauk Site/Fire Radio - The Chairman asked Jim Feyerherm of Starved Rock Communications to report on the Somonauk Fire Radio site.  He said that due to weather problems, the tower crew, who go onto the watertower, was behind in their work.  He said that the week of January 15 has been scheduled to put up the antenna, weather permitting.  He also reported that the DeKalb PSAP backup at DeKalb County Sheriff's Police Communications Center has also been delayed for the same reason.  The same crew has been scheduled for the same week in January to install the necessary antenna.  Feyerherm also discussed outages within the County Fire Radio system.  He said that they have all basically stemmed from either acts of God, e.g., lightning, wind, etc., or the radio power supply.  He feels that the power supply units that come with the radios are somewhat faulty due to their early failure rate.  Recent outages have been as the direct result of these failures.  He asked the Board authorization to research using a different power supply.  He said the entire system uses 6 units.  The current replacements cost approximately $250.  Other ones may be more expensive - $400 each.  Lt. Al Newby said that one failed power supply prohibited a page out of Waterman Fire.  Polarek asked Feyerherm to report to the Board at the next meeting.  

¨      Mapping Committee -  no report

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Purchase requests - No requests 

¨      Persons to be heard from the floor - No one presented themselves. 

¨      VoiceStream Wireless Agreement - Kross reported that VoiceStream Wireless Corp. has submitted an agreement, similar to that the Board has with Verizon Wireless, which will allow the DeKalb County 911 system to accept their wireless 911 calls.

A motion to approve the agreement was made by Riddle, and seconded by Olson.  The motion passed unanimously.     

¨      PSAP Administrators report - No report

¨      Coordinator’s report

1.      Next meeting is at the County Administrative Building, in the Conference Room East, after which we will tour DeKalb County Sheriff's Communication Center.

2.      Kross reported that our insurance premium will be going up this next year, due to additional coverage on the County Fire Radio sites.

ADJOURNMENT 

Suppeland moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 8:26 A.M. 

Respectfully submitted,

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Charles Kross, Coordinator