Board members present:
Chairman Richard Olson, Vice-Chairman William Riddle, Edward Bowman, William Feithen, Gary Hanson, Carl Leoni, and Lannie Russell.

Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications; Glenna Johnson, GeoComm; Debbie Lilley & Steve Gould, Verizon.

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

Chairman Olson called the meeting to order at 7:33 AM

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  There were none.

A motion to approve the agenda was made by Bowman and seconded by Leoni.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed. 

MINUTES

            The Chairman asked for any changes or additions to the minutes.  Hanson referred to the subsection "Board Composition" in which Feithen indicated the City of DeKalb would not be in favor of enlarging the number of Board members.  He suggested Feithen was more concerned with  the City maintaining the same proportion of DeKalb representatives within the Board, rather than total number of Board members.  Feithen agreed with Hanson. The minutes will be corrected as such.

A motion to approve the minutes of the December meeting, as amended, was made by Hanson and seconded by Russell.  The motion passed. 

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report:

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

      The motion passed.

§         Bills Not Previously Approved:

1.      DeKalb County Sheriff's Police requested approval to purchase a CAD update for their system.  Cost is $13,500.  Riddle made a motion to approve the purchase.  Bowman seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

            Bills:

                       Total                                                                                                      $27,300.14

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

¨      Waterman Watertower/Fire Radio

            Feyerherm reported that the building has been built.  It does not yet have electricity.  As soon as he is able, Feyerherm will transfer the equipment and wiring.

§         Composition of ETSB Members

            A discussion was held on what recommendations should be made to the County Board Chairman regarding the requirement of a County Board member on the ETSB.  Olson suggested that the County Board Chairman might discuss it with the Sheriff and take it from one of the existing, Sheriff recommended seats.  He said he was not in favor of enlarging the Board. 

            Hanson discussed the fairness of Genoa losing a position on the Board when they decided to no longer have a PSAP.  Should that apply to Sycamore, who will soon not have a PSAP?  Hanson suggested a couple of possible scenarios, one being that a position be added for Genoa, and one for the County Board member, or, two re-doing the makeup of the ETSB, perhaps by adding other public service agencies, such as Public Health.  He said that the  ETSB seemed to be heavily weighted with Police. 

            Feithen said he felt that redoing the Board would be opening a can of worms.  He said the reason the Police were heavily represented was because of the much higher volume of 911 calls handled by Police versus Fire and EMS.  

            Hanson suggested that perhaps there should be someone from the Telecommunicators or a  computer person. 

            Russell said that Public Health or other service providers would not be very helpful because they are not emergency responders, nor do they really understand emergency communications.

            Feithen said that ESDA is already represented by the County position. 

                        Feithen made a motion to authorize the Chairman to send a letter to the County Board Chairman, requesting he appoint a County Board member to one of the  two at-large positions, or the DeKalb County Sheriff's position.  Russell seconded.  Bowman  N  Feithen  Y  Hanson N  Leoni Y  Riddle Y Russell Y  Olson Y.  The motion passed. 

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests -  DeKalb County Sheriff's Police requested to purchase a UPS for $4700.  Russell made a motion to approve the purchase.  Feithen seconded. The motion passed unanimously.  The DeKalb County Sheriff's Police also sought approval to use 3 channels of the multi-channel fire radio repeater.  They would be used for Police dispatch.  Feyerherm said that it wouldn't cause any problems for the fire radio.  There was plenty of channel space available.  Leoni moved to approve the use.  Feithen seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.  

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report -  No report.

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  Debbie Lilley, Verizon, introduced Steve Gould, the sales engineer for our area.  Feyerherm reported that the spare radio equipment is stored in the DeKalb County Sheriff's Police radio shack in Sycamore.

¨      Coordinator’s Report - The Coordinator reminded everyone of the Workshop on January 23 at 6:00 PM in the DeKalb Police Classroom

ADJOURNMENT: 

  Russell moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 8:43 A.M. 

Respectfully submitted,