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DeKalb County, Illinois
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September 4, 2002
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Board
members present:
Vice
Chair Riddle, Feithen, Hanson, Leoni, Pettit, Russell, and Suppeland.
This is the first meeting Chief Russell is attending as a Board Member.
Guests
Present:
Chief Kevin Hickey, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police; Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County
Sheriff's Police; Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm,
Starved Rock Communications; Mike Wallin, G/K Rescue; Glenna Johnson, GeoComm,
Debbie Lilley, Verizon
Also
Present:
Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator
Vice
Chairman Riddle called the meeting to order at 7:34 AM.
AGENDA
The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.
Kross asked to add the appointment of a Budget Committee for the
next fiscal year. A motion to
approve the agenda as amended was made by Feithen
and seconded by Russell.
There was no discussion. The motion passed.
MINUTES
A
motion to approve the minutes of the August 7 meeting was made by Suppeland
and seconded by Russell. The motion passed.
OLD
BUSINESS:
¨
Treasurer’s
Report:
A
motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Suppeland
and seconded by Feithen. The motion passed.
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Bills
Not Previously Approved
NiComm - Sycamore PSAP- $730 UPS & $80 UPS
$ 810.00
Browntree Data Systems - Sycamore PSAP - Software
2100.00
CCIT - DeKalb PSAP - monitors 1,266.45
CCIT - DeKalb PSAP - video cards 1,583.82
Public Safety Group
413.00
TBC - DeKalb PSAP - CAD PC's
2,048.00
Communitech, Inc - DeKalb PSAP - headsets
775.00
Communitech, Inc. - DeKalb PSAP - headset
76.50
A
motion to approve the previously unapproved bills was made by Hanson
and seconded by Riddle.
A roll call vote was taken: Feithen
Y Hanson Y
Leoni Y Pettit Y Riddle Y
Russell Y
Suppeland Y.
The motion passed unanimously.
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Bills:
Charles
Kross -
mileage
$ 123.37
Verizon
114.28
Verizon
71.57
Verizon
29.04
Verizon
33.74
Verizon
105.17
Verizon
9,944.84
Verizon
626.75
Verizon
36.38
AT&T
19.04
Office Max
35.93
Language Line
229.20
PowerPhone - Training manuals
6,355.00
Public Safety Group Consultants
413.00
Dictaphone - DeKalb PSAP
419.90
Dictaphone - DeKalb PSAP - relocation
864.85
CCIT - DeKalb PSAP - monitors
1,266.45
CCIT- DeKalb PSAP - video cards
1,583.52
TBC- DeKalb PSAP - cad computers
2,048.00
CommuniTech, Inc. - DeKalb PSAP
76.50
CommuniTech, Inc. -
DeKalb PSAP
775.00
NiComm - Sycamore PSAP
730.00
NiComm - Sycamore PSAP
80.00
Browntree Data Systems - Sycamore PSAP
2,100.00
Total
$28,081.83
A motion to pay the bills was made by Suppeland
and seconded by Russell. A roll call vote was taken: Feithen Y Hanson
Y Leoni Y
Pettit Y Russell Y
Suppeland Y
Riddle Y . The motion passed
unanimously.
§
Lock
Box Procedure
Kross reported that the dispatching books have been obtained and partially
distributed to the
participating Fire Departments. He
is still trying to determine if the lock-boxes can be call-forwarded to the Fire
Stations.
§
DeKalb
County Sheriff's Police/Sycamore/Genoa combined communications
Hickey and Riddle
reported on the ongoing meetings. It
is evident that fire/police radio transmitters will be required in Genoa.
The Sheriff believes he has a funding source for this
that is estimated to cost $50,000. The
Sheriff's plan would be to donate the equipment to the ETSB, for insurance,
repairs, etc. Feithen said that
the Board should make sure that it doesn't run in to the same problems as with
the Waterman tower. Feyerherm
said that wouldn't be a problem. Hanson said that
he would like to see a commitment from Genoa before money is invested.
Feithen asked if the Mayor and/or Council want to participate in the
tower discussions. Hickey
said that Sheriff Scott has met with Genoa's Mayor, but doesn't know the results
of the meeting.
Feithen made a motion for the
ETSB to accept the ownership and maintenance of the Genoa equipment after it is
installed and operational. Suppeland seconded
the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
§
Phase
I/II report
Kross spoke to Steve
Wieland from the State of Illinois
Central Management Service, who
reported that DeKalb County ETSB has eight companies paying into the WETSA
fund including VoiceStream, Verizon, US Cellular, Sprint, PrimeCo,
Nextel, Cingular, and ATT. PrimeCo is a fringe
supplier, but all are paying over $50 per month from DeKalb County wireless
customers. Wieland also reported
that our County is about average regarding the Phase I
implementations. Feithen
suggested that the Board have a representative from Verizon Wireless at the next
meeting, to discuss their plans for DeKalb County implementation.
§
Waterman
water tower Committee report
Kross read a letter from Jim
Feyerherm of Starved Rock Communications regarding the unreliable signals to
the Lee Fire Protection District pagers. The recommendation was to replace
the antenna with the original antenna, which was replaced several years ago.
The cost of re-erecting the old antenna is $2240.
Feyerherm believes that this
action will take care of the Lee pager problems, since those problems have
become apparent after thisantenna was removed.
Russell made a motion to
authorize the re-erecting of the old antenna.
Leoni seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
Since the establishment of the Committee at the last Board meeting,
there have been additional water
problems inside the Waterman tower. The
Committee met in Waterman, at
the site, with Tom Defazzio, from the
Waterman Water Department. He
offered the Board the opportunity to put the radios in an existing small hut,
adjacent to the tower. This hut is built over the actual well head for the water supply.
It is heated and enclosed from the elements.
Kross read a letter from Jim Feyerherm
of Starved Rock Communications regarding
the approximate cost of $3558 to relocate the radios into the hut.
Some concerns Feyerherm
expressed involving this solution would be extensive maintenance or theradios in
the hut. Kross
said that he would look into other solutions, such as erecting a small equipment
shelter, elsewhere on the property, and contacting other tower owners in the
area to see if we could attach to them. He will report at the next meeting.
NEW
BUSINESS
§
Appointment
of budget committee - The
Vice Chair appointed Chairman Olson,
Riddle, Hanson, and Feithen to the Committee. Kross will set a
date for the meeting.
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Participating
Agency Requests
Riddle
presented a request from Sycamore to upgrade their
radios. Feithen made a motion to authorize Sycamore Police
Department to use $50,000 of their revenue split for upgrades to their radios.
Feithen seconded the motion. The
motion passed unanimously.
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PSAP
Administrators' Report - No
report.
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Persons
to be Heard from the Floor -
No one.
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Coordinator’s
Report -
1.
WETSA
money 3/1/02 - 3/31/02 $15,669.56
2/1/02 - 2/28/02 15743.23
2.
Kross
distributed the PSAP activity for the past six months, for total calls and
wireless calls.
ADJOURNMENT
Feithen moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Russell. The motion
passed. The meeting adjourned
at 8:35 A.M.
Respectfully
submitted,
___________________________
Charles Kross, Coordinator
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