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

Guests Present: Joan Berkes-Hanson, DeKalb County Information Management; Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Glenna Johnson, Verizon; Debbie Lilley, Verizon; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications.

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

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

AGENDA The Chairman added a report from Verizon and a report from the nominating committee to the agenda. A motion to approve the agenda as amended was made by Pettit and seconded by Leoni.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed.

MINUTES             Two items were changed from the minutes of October 3. Suppeland was removed from the Salary/Benefits Committee, and Polarek was removed from the Nominating Committee.  Those names were inadvertently added to the Committees.    A motion to approve the minutes of the October 3, 2001 meeting as amended was made by Riddle and seconded by Pettit.  The motion passed.

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer Johnson, reported that a CD was coming maturing soon.  After

a brief discussion regarding impending bills, Feithen made a made a motion to reinvest the principle and interest into a 60 day CD.  Suppeland seconded.  There was no further discussion.

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

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

¨      Bills:

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

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

¨      Somonauk Fire Antenna / Channel Card Changeover

Feyerherm said that he has adjusted the Minitor pagers. He has also installed all the channel cards.  The antennas should be raised on the High-rise by the next meeting.  The new radios have been installed in Waterman and appear to be working properly.  The old ones will be kept for spares.

¨      Fixed assets - No report.  Kross has not finished follow up work.

¨      Salary/Benefit Committee

The Board went into executive session to discuss personnel matters at 8:52 AM.  The Board resumed the meeting at 8:36 AM.  Leoni made a motion to increase the Coordinator's salary to $16.20 per hour,  and his Office Expenses to  $310 per month .  Pettit seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

¨      Nominating Committee:

The Committee recommended that current Chairman Pete Polarek and Vice-Chairman Richard Olson be re-elected and recommended that Gary Hanson be elected Secretary.  Suppeland made a motion for the Board to accept the committee recommendations.  Feithen seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

¨      Budget Committee -

The Committee met on November 6, and prepared the recommended budget. There was discussion about establishing the Capital Contingency Fund.  Polarek asked that the Board authorize establishing one.  A motion was made by Riddle, and seconded by Leoni, to establish, by policy, a Capital contingency Fund, which would be funded at $50,000 per year.  During discussion, it was agreed that the policy should be flexible regarding the yearly amount funded, depending upon the ability of the Board to continue to financially support $50,000.  The motion passed unanimously. 

Olson made a motion to approve the budget submitted by the Committee.  Hanson seconded the motion.

A roll call vote was taken.  Feithen Y Grandgeorge Y Hanson Y Leoni Y Pettit Y Riddle Y Suppeland Y Olson Y Polarek Y. 

Kross raised the issue of how Wireless 911 Funds may be spent.  The statute indicates that the monies can only be used for wireless 911 services.  Polarek recommended that the Committee meets again in the next several months to review the law, and how it affects the individual agency splits.   

 NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests

1.      Sycamore is requesting authorization to purchase 2 MDT's @ $600 each, for installation in their squad cars. 

Suppeland moved to approve the purchase.  Feithen seconded.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report - Will be meeting after the regular Board meeting.

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

¨      Coordinator’s Report

Kross reported on the State NENA/APCO conference which was held in Springfield on October 21^st through the 24^th.  Verizon's tariff has been passed and is retroactive to July. It will be under $1600 per month. Phase I implementation has been delayed in Illinois, due to an ICC ruling which allows wireless carriers to continue using 3^rd party companies (Conor Communications) to take 911 calls and forward them to the appropriate PSAP.  Phase II has been delayed by FCC action, which has allowed non-conformance to FCC regulations, by a number of wireless companies.  Phase II was implemented in St. Claire County, IL the day before the Conference began.  It is the only place in the US where it is available.

¨      Verizon

Glenna Johnson and Debbie Lilley, who reported on their company's partnering with Geo-Comm and Micro-Data for mapping services, represented Verizon.  Glenna reported that the DeKalb County PSAP system is up to date and shouldn't require additional equipment for Phase I and II at the PSAPs.  When asked for an approximation of the cost of  similar service, she said that a ballpark figure would be around $8,000 per PSAPP.  Glenna and Debbie stayed after the meeting for training with the PSAP administrators.

ADJOURNMENT

Feithen moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Hanson. The motion passed.  The meeting adjourned at 9:15 A.M.

 Respectfully submitted,

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