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Minutes of the
E-911 Board 


December 3, 2003


CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Olson called the meeting to order at 7:35 AM
 

ROLL CALL
Board members present:

Chairman Olson, Vice Chair Riddle, Feithen, Hanson, Pettit, Russell, and Suppeland.

Board members absent: Rosemier and Bowman, Leoni arrived at 7:41. 

Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications; Glenna Johnson, Geo-Comm.; Kathy Minick, NIU telephone; Sheila and Joan Berkes-Hanson, DeKalb Co.  IMO 

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

AGENDA

A motion to approve the agenda was made by Lanson Russell and seconded by Riddle. There was no discussion. The motion passed. 


 

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the November 5, 2003 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed. 

 

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer Christine Johnson reported that she was going to separate the Capital Contingency Fund from the other funds, which will enable the Board to have a clearer picture of its contents.  Johnson then presented the November report.

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

§         Bills Not Previously Approved:

                  Nicomm- reprogram Sycamore Fire Department radios                                 $832.60

                  Battery Tech Central.com                                                                                420.00

                  Russell made a motion to approve both expenditures.  Riddle seconded.  A roll call vote                   was taken Feithen  Y  Hanson  Y  Leoni  Y  Pettit  Y Suppeland  Y  Riddle  Y  Olson  Y.  The motion passed unanimously.    

§         Bills:

                Verizon                                                                                                              113.74
                Verizon                                                                                                          15079.43
                Verizon                                                                                                                44.58
                 Starved Rock Communications - Sycamore. Fire radio                                    5,459.00
                 Language Line                                                                                                   217.50
                 Sprint                                                                                                                   12.98
                 AT&T             
                                                                                                    32.47 
                 DeKalb County Housing Authority - Antenna rent                                               200.00
                 PowerPhone                                                                                                    2,094.00
            PowerPhone                                                                                                         2,312.00
            PowerPhone                                                                                                         1,635.00
            PowerPhone                                                                                                         1,265.00
            Dictaphone - Maintenance Agreement                                                                     990.00
            Battery Tech Central.Com - Sycamore                                                                    420.00
            Ben Suppeland - NENA Conf. expenses                                                                   30.02
            NiComm - reprogram Sycamore Fire Department radios                                         832.60

            Total                                                                                                                 $30,738.40

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

¨      Mapping Proposal -

            Kross reported on a meeting the Mapping group had on November 19.  Prior to that, Debbie Lilley and Steve Gould toured the County PSAP, DeKalb PSAP, and NIU's PSAP.  The tours were to enable Verizon to answer various questions the Board and others have posed.    Subsequently,  Gould provided a price list of equipment for the four PSAPs.  Kross suggested  that the Board enter negotiations with Verizon for mapping services.  Feithen expressed  concern about the costs of Verizon service and additional telephone/data lines.  Hanson felt that there were still unanswered questions.  Feithen moved to table the discussion until the  next meeting, when some of these issues could be answered.  Hanson seconded.  The motion passed.  


¨      Election of Officers -

            Riddle made a motion to re-elect the current officers, who are Chief Richard Olson,   Chairman; Chief William Riddle, Vice-Chairman; and Gary Hanson as Secretary.  Russell  seconded the motion.  A roll call vote was taken: Feithen Y   Hanson Y  Leoni Y  Pettit  Y    Riddle  Y  Suppeland  Y  Olson Y.   The motion passed unanimously.   
 

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests -

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report -  no report

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor - No one

¨      Coordinator’s Report - No report.



ADJOURNMENT

Russell moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 8:17 A.M.

Respectfully submitted,

 

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Charles Kross, Coordinator


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