CALL TO ORDER

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

ROLL CALL

Board members present:

Chairman Olson, Hanson, Leoni, Riddle, Russell, Rosemier, and Suppeland.

Board members absent:

Bowman, Feithen, and Pettit,

Guests Present:

                        Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police; Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department;

Jim Feyerherm Starved Rock Communications; Sgt. John Kreutzinger & Lt. Curtis Young, NIU PD.

Also Present:

Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator

AGENDA

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

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the August 3, 2005 meeting was made by Rosemier and seconded by Riddle.  The motion passed. 

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report:

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

There was no discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.

·        Bills Not Previously Approved:   

1.      DeKalb County Sheriff's Police $224 for INENA Conference registration.

2.      DeKalb Police Department $224 for INENA Conference registration.

3.      Chuck Kross, $125 for INENA conference registration.

Riddle made a motion to approve the bills.  Leoni seconded the motion.  There was no discussion.  A roll call vote was taken.  Hanson  Y  Leoni  Y Riddle  Y  Rosemier  Y  Russell  Y  Suppeland  Y  Olson  Y.

·        Bills:

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

¨      Fire Radio reports

1.      Feyerherm reported that the UPS has been installed at the Keslinger site.  He said there was a small timing glitch if a TC responded to a radio call very quickly.  It would cause a disturbance in the signal.  They are working on that.

2.      Hanson presented a large diagram of the 911 communications flow from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Police to the participating agencies to which they dispatch.  It  clearly shows how the  county-wide Fire dispatch and DeKalb County Sheriff's Police dispatch works through the various telephone lines, micro relays, etc., to the participating Police or Fire Agency.

3.      Rosemier asked how often the various sites were checked for problems.  Feyerherm said the system is usually checked in the spring and in the fall. 

¨      Phase I & Phase II Mapping

Kross reported that TCs did testing for Verizon Wireless and ceased the testing because of problems.  One of the problems was a local training issue, which is being addressed.  The issue was one of rebidding the 911 call, which in effect brings up new information on a Phase I or Phase II call.  DeKalb County Sheriff's Police and DeKalb Police Department are in the process of training their TCs.  Kross will go to NIU PD and Sandwich PD and instruct their personnel.  TCS will resume testing on September 21 for Verizon Wireless and September 27 for US Cellular.  T-mobile and Sprint have achieved Phase I on most sites, and are working on Phase II.  Some of their testing has been completed.

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests -

None

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report

 No report.

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor

 No one

¨      Coordinator’s Report

1.      Russell discussed the Deployment of 15 Firefighters and equipment, to work with the Hurricane Katrina problem.  Several hundred personnel and equipment have been dispatched from Illinois.  This deployment was done based upon the MABAS system, which has been beefed up since the September 11 tragedy.  A Police Officer from DeKalb Pollice Department has been deployed others from Illinois based upon an ILEAS request.  ILEAS is based upon the MABAS model but is for Law Enforcement agencies.  Those deployed are expected to be there for 2 weeks.  A brief discussion followed a question by Rosemier regarding the local plans. 

2.      Kross talked about VoIP and the discussion of it at the INENA meeting.

3.      Kross reminded everyone that the next Board meeting will be in the Council Chamber at the Sandwich City Hall on October 5, at 7:00 P.M.

ADJOURNMENT

Suppeland moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.  The motion passed.  The meeting adjourned at 8:24 A.M.

Respectfully submitted,

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Charles Kross, Coordinator