The meeting was held at the Conference Room East, 110 Sycamore St., Sycamore, IL. 

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

Guests Present: Chief Don Thomas, Sycamore Police Department; Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications; Joan Berkes-Hanson and staff from the DeKalb County Information Office; Debbie Lilley and Glenna Johnson from Verizon 

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

Chairman Olson called the meeting to order at 10:05 AM

AGENDA

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

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the April 3, 2002 meeting was made by Leoni and seconded by Feithen.  The motion passed. 

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report:

1.      Treasurer Johnson reported that the interest from CD's was again comparable to Money Market investments.  She recommended that the Money Market investments be placed into CD's.  Polarek made a motion to invest $781,940.73 from the Money Market fund, and $100,000 from the checking account, into a 30-day CD.  Feithen seconded.                     

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

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

¨      Bills:

            Verizon                                                                                                       57.94

            Verizon                                                                                                  9,899.59

            Verizon                                                                                                     137.61

            Verizon                                                                                                     144.02

            Verizon                                                                                                       67.28

            Verizon                                                                                                       35.42

            Verizon                                                                                                      765.80

            Sprint                                                                                                          12.68

            AT & T                                                                                                      15.95

            Language Line                                                                                          152.10

            Dictaphone - DeKalb split                                                                    24,179.93

            Dictaphone - DeKalb split                                                                      1.993.00

            Starved Rock Communications - fire radio                                             5,580.00

            Starved Rock Communications - fire radio                                                670.00

      Charles Kross - stamps                                                                               57.00

Sikitch & Gardner - Auditing                                                                      300.00

KMB Computing - Sycamore Police Department                                    6,320.00

PowerPhone                                                                                              789.00

State of Illinois - Sycamore Police Department                                         1,498.95

            A motion to pay the bills was made Feithen by and seconded by Riddle .

           A roll call vote was taken: 

            Feithen Y   Hanson Y  Leoni Y  Polarek Y Riddle Y  Olson Y.   The motion passed unanimously.

¨      Lock Box Manning - This discussion was tabled until the next meeting.

¨      Fixed Asset Policy - Johnson presented an amended policy, which included the requirement for the Coordinator to ensure that a property inventory be completed by November 1 of each year.

            A motion was made by Polarek to adopt the Policy as presented at the May 3 meeting.              Leoni seconded the motion

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

¨      Verizon Report - Glenna Johnson announced that she was retiring from Verizon June 1, and that this was her last meeting with the DeKalb County ETSB.  Chairman Olson thanked her for her many years of help to the Board. 

NEW BUSINESS

¨      New Rural Maps - Joan Berkes-Hanson presented the new rural 911 maps prepared by the County Information Office.

¨      Combined Communications - Hanson presented a proposed resolution whereby the Board would endorse the DeKalb County Government's plan for partial funding from the ETSB.  The Board would need to annually fund 2 components.  They are:  1) "An amount of money equal to the salary, benefits, and expenses of a full-time, mid-level Dispatcher and Sergeant (50% each) with the rationale being that a full time fire dispatch console for 24 hours per day, 7 days per week requires 5 full-time personnel and the County property tax levy currently only covers 4 full-time fire dispatchers for the on e 24/7 fire console.", and  2) "An amount of money equal to the salary, benefits, and expenses of one mid-level Sergeant with the rationale being that a large percentage of the volume of increased dispatching traffic into the Sheriff's Communication Center is the result of wireless 911 calls and that added staffing for that call volume is warranted."

      The cost to the Board for DeKalb County Sheriff's Police to assume dispatch services for 

      Sycamore Police Department and Fire Department and the Genoa/Kingston Fire Protection  

      District would be $116,000 over and above the $53,000 currently being paid for rural fire         

      dispatchers.  Polarek said that the goal should be to eliminate PSAPs.  He wondered what kind of     

      savings could the Board anticipate. It was agreed that since most Board members had not had an

      opportunity to review the resolution and supporting data, a workshop session should be held to   

      discuss the resolution and to determine specifically what the Board should pay for.  A meeting 

      was set for Wednesday, May 9, at 10:00 AM at the East Conference Room of the County                  

     Administrative Building.

¨      Participating Agency Requests - none

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report - none

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor - No one

¨      Coordinator’s Report -

1.      WETSA check for 11/01/01 through 11/30/01 in the amount of $14,966.01

2.      Kross announced that there would be a demonstration of a mapping system by Micro-Data

ADJOURNMENT 

  Riddle moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 11:30 A.M. 

Respectfully submitted,