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DeKalb County, Illinois |
Minutes of the
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Board members present:
Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications.
Also Present: Charles Kross, Coordinator
Chairman Olson called the meeting to order at 7:30 AM
AGENDA The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda. Kross requested a personnel committee be established prior to budget committee report, to deal with personnel matters, and that he had neglected to include Verizon Wireless report for old Business and the NIU telephone status under old business.
A motion to approve the agenda as amended was made by Feithen and seconded by Suppeland There was no discussion. The motion passed.
MINUTES A motion to approve the minutes of the October 2, 2002 meeting was made by Feithen and seconded by Russell. The motion passed.
OLD BUSINESS: ¨ Treasurer’s Report: A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Feithen and seconded by Bowman. The motion passed. § Bills Not Previously Approved: Dictaphone - DeKalb PSAP $1506.60 A motion was made by Riddle and seconded by Suppeland to approve the expenditure. The motion passed unanimously. ¨ Bills: Verizon 20,297.36 Verizon 109.60 Verizon 41.78 Verizon 29.04 Verizon 33.74 Verizon 297.82 Verizon 73.86 Verizon 41.70 Language Line 210.10 Sprint 12.68 Office Max 43.09 Charles Kross 1,860.00 APCO International - dues 60.00 AT&T 19.76 Starved Rock Communications -fire radio 7387.50 Dictaphone - DeKalb 1506.60 Dictaphone 6,388.00 DeKalb County Sheriff 53,000.00 PowerPhone 2400.00 PowerPhone 349.00 Nelson Systems - NIU PSAP 2,906.88 GovConnection - Sycamore 1,431.00 Watson Furniture Systems - Sycamore 21,031.00 Viking - Sycamore 61.46 LuxSteel Domore 1,278.00 Total 120,869.97
A motion to pay the bills was made by Russell and seconded by Riddle. A roll call vote was taken: Bowman Y Feithen Y Hanson Y Leoni Y Pettit Y Russell Y Suppeland Y Riddle Y Olson Y. The motion passed unanimously.
¨ Waterman Watertower Equipment Shelter - Chairman Olson, Bowman, and Jim Feyerherm attended the Village of Waterman Trustee meeting. After presenting the idea of placing a small utility building on the property, the Trustees decided that they would rather expand the existing building, rather than approve and additional structure. They said it would cost approximately $5000 to expand. They would like the ETSB to pay $2500 and would work our a solution to the other $2500 with the Sheriff. Olson spoke to the Sheriff who agreed to it on his part. A motion was made by Feithen to spend $2500 to finance half of the addition. Russell seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. § DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Sycamore, Genoa Merger - Riddle reported that the final cut-over of services from Sycamore to DeKalb County Sheriff's Police is expected to occur around April 1, 2003. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Police has hired 4 Sycamore Telecommunicators, who will continue to work out of the Sycamore facility until the cut-over. The Genoa City Council will send a letter of approval for the antenna on their watertower. Lt. Newby said that the agreement has been signed with the state and the money is coming. § Budget Committee Report - Kross presented the budget prepared by the committee. He briefly discussed each line item. Feithen moved to accept the budget as presented by the committee. Suppeland seconded. The motion passed unanimously. Riddle, Suppeland, and Olson will act as a personnel committee to discuss the Coordinator's wage and benefit package. § Leland Fire Protection District Request for Merging With DeKalb County ETSB - Kross read a Section of 50 ILCS/750/3, which, while it does not specifically approve this type of merger, seems to encourage multi-jurisdictional or regional systems. Kross has not been able to contact Marci Schroll 911 Program Manager for the ICC. Kross said Chief Kramer, of the Leland Fire Department, was going to attend the Board meeting, but Kross told him that it would not be necessary. Kross said he would have more to report at the January meeting. § Verizon Wireless - Kross reported he has been in contact with Paul Binder 911 Deployment Manager of TCS/XY Point, who is the contractor hired by Verizon Wireless to put in their 911 systems. He said that they expect to start testing within the next two weeks. All equipment is in, and the MSAG has been updated for it. Nextel expects to go on line within the next month.
NEW BUSINESS § Composition of ETSB (50 ILCS 750/15.4) ETSB Powers - Kross reported that he had just learned at the NENA conference, that the law relating to the composition of ETSB members has been changed. The cited sub section a says "…the board shall consist of not fewer than 5 members, one of whom must be a public member who is a resident of the local exchange service territory included in the 9-1-1 coverage are, one of whom (in counties with a population less than 100,000) must be a member of the County Board…" this became effective on January 1, 2002. Kross will discuss this with the States Attorney, and report to the Board at the next meeting. § Election of Officers of ETSB - The Chairman appointed a nominating committee of Riddle, Suppeland and himself, who will report next meeting. § Fire Department Pagers - Kross read from the Memo of Understanding, which is made part of the DeKalb County ETSB Ordinance, Section 2 of Attachment A, which states that certain equipment was designated by the Technical committee as being essential for the operation of the E-911 system, and includes pagers and programmable paging encoders. Feithen said that since DeKalb and Sycamore Fire Departments have always purchased their own from internal budgets, that any replacements should include those agencies, as well as Police Department pagers. He said that the Board needs to discuss in depth future expenses, especially hefty ones like consolidated communications and electronic mapping. He asked if when Phase II is operational, and wireless calls are routed to other PSAPs, if the amount of money going to the Sheriff's department would decrease since that was a reason given for the recent increase. Once it is determined the amount of increased income from NIU, should they not also receive a split? He recommended a workshop to discuss these issues. Bowman said that the Fire Departments aren't asking for everyone to get a pager, but to keep current ones maintained and get replacements where necessary. Without pagers, the system won't work. Feithen said that the larger towns are taxing their citizens to pay for these kinds of items. The smaller towns don't seem to want to pay for the same things the larger towns are paying for. The Board needs to review these policies. Suppeland said that a workshop would be good for all of the Board. We have many new members, and these issues need to be discussed. Based upon the Ordinance what we do for some agencies, we should do for all. Olson said that each agency should consider their own budgets and needs. Kross was directed to establish a time and date. Feithen offered the Police Department classroom. Kross will report to the Board at the January meeting. ¨ Participating Agency Requests - 1. DeKalb Police Department is requesting the ETSB to authorize the purchase of a new Police radio transmitter at the cost of $6960. This will come out of DeKalb's split. Feithen made a motion to authorize the purchase. Riddle seconded. The motion passed unanimously. ¨ PSAP Administrators' Report - no report ¨ Persons to be Heard from the Floor - no one ¨ Coordinator’s Report - 1. WETSA Funds - $15,577.32 for 5/01/2002 through 5/31/2002 2. The Illinois Department of Public Health is currently in the process of rulemaking, which will require all Telecommunicator's who do EMD to be certified every 4 years. They will be required to receive 12 hours of continuing education every year. PSAPs will also have to be certified. No information on that yet.
ADJOURNMENTRiddle moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni. The motion passed. The meeting adjourned at 8:48 A.M.
Respectfully submitted,
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