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

Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police; Lt. Carl Leoni, DeKalb Police Department; Chief George Cies, Waterman Police Department. 

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

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

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  He added: an equipment request for Shabbona Fire Protection District, a discussion of the DeKalb high rise tower rate, Gary Hanson, and Waterman Police Department equipment request.

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

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the February 7, 2001 meeting was made by Feithen and seconded by Probasco.  The motion passed.   

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report:

Treasurer Johnson reported that a CD will mature on March 9, valued at $266,740.73.  Additionally, the checking account balance could be reduced.  

A motion was made by Olson and seconded by Suppeland to take $25,000 from the checking account, add it to the principal and interest from the CD, and put it into a 90 day CD.

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

Hanson questioned why there was no indication of revenue from Verizon for the month of February.  When does Verizon pay?  Johnson said that the check from Verizon might not have come in time to be added to the report.  She will check into it further. 

A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Riddle  and seconded by Probasco.  The motion passed.  

¨      Bills:

      Charles Kross                                                 44.85

Verizon                                                      8,637.49

Verizon                                                        136.43

      Verizon                                                          28.85

      Verizon                                                          72.01

      Verizon                                                          28.89

      Verizon                                                        263.72

      R.W. Brown                                                  460.00

      PEI, Inc. - training                                       1,000.00

PowerPhone                                                  368.00

Mid American Specialties                              747.70

NENA - Suppeland dues                                75.00

Language Line                                              227.30

AT&T                                                            14.50            

Starved Rock Communications - Fire             120.00                                          

NIU - mapping costs                                   3,250.00

NiComm - Sycamore                                       80.00

SyForce - Sycamore                                        112.50             

            Total                                       $15,667.24     

A motion to pay the bills was made by Suppeland and seconded by Olson.  A roll call vote was taken: Feithen   Y Hanson Y  Pettit  Y  Probasco  Y  Riddle  Y  Suppeland  Y   Olson Y  Polarek  Y.  The motion passed unanimously. 

¨      Countywide Fire Radio/Somonauk Tower - Polarek reported that the antenna was being installed on the Somonauk tower today.  By the next meeting, it should be in-service and operational.  Jim Feyerherm, of Starved Rock Communications, has been installing the new power supplies authorized by the Board. 

¨      Radio License Upgrade - Kross reported that Bob Brown of Brown Electronics has agreed to do the necessary work to get the Somonauk tower site included on the existing county fire radio license.  He said it would be less than the $500 authorized by the Board.  Polarek also reported that he had talked to Mitch Hallgren, Director of the DeKalb County Housing Authority, and explained the Board's position on tower rental.  Polarek said that they would be speaking again soon. 

¨      VoiceStream Wireless - Kross reported that the propagation maps supplied by VoiceStream have been modified at his request.  The new ones exclude I-90, I-39, and the City of Aurora, as requested.  They will be testing very soon and should be on line this month. 

¨      Mapping Committee - no report

¨      Training - Kross reported that the training with PEI Inc. has been set for Wednesday March 21 from 0800 to 4:00.  The instructor will be Richard Solie, an attorney, who has been teaching in this field and is President of PEI, for a number of years.  The curriculum has been modified to fit our needs.  Kross took a sampling of those attending the meeting, and it appears there will be 16  attending, just from the PSAPs.  Kross will send a letter to the participating agencies and to the surrounding counties.

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Gary Hanson - showed the new street index guide that has been developed for the county maps distributed by Information Management Services of DeKalb County.  He also exhibited several maps.  These are available through the County IMS, at 895-1643. 

¨      Equipment requests

1.      Waterman - No request at this time.

2.      Shabbona Fire Protection District - Polarek read a letter from Shabbona Fire Protection District requesting $460 from their share, for a 45-watt radio.  Johnson reported that they had enough to cover that amount, and that an invoice for the purchase had been submitted.

A motion was made by Suppeland and seconded by Hanson, to approve the Shabbona request for $460.

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

3.      Sandwich Police Department - requests $2342 to purchase a "VRM System" which

allows their PSAP to transmit and receive on ALERTS, without requiring an ALERTS computer.

A motion was made by Feithen and was seconded by Probasco.  The motion passed unanimously. 

¨      PSAP Administrators Report - Lt. Newby reported that the Administrator's Committee had met and discussed training needs.  Of highest priority was the need for a re-certification course for Emergency Medical Dispatch.   

¨      Coordinators report

1.      Verizon and CML have just upgraded software and hardware at the PSAPs.

2.      Kross reported from last month's NENA meeting.  DeKalb County was the only county in attendance, paying fire departments to man the trunks during outages.  Included at this meeting were Boone, Lee, Ogle, Winnebago, Stephenson, Bureau, and Carroll Counties.  We are also the only one supplying maps to all the PSAPs and Fire Departments.

3.      Kross asked if it would be all right to distribute the agenda and minutes by E-mail where available.  It was approved.

ADJOURNMENT

Probasco moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 8:31 A.M.
 

Respectfully submitted, 

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Charles Kross, Coordinator