CALL TO ORDER

Vice Chairman Leoni called the meeting to order at 3:35 PM.

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

Vice Chairman Leoni, Feithen, Rosemier, Young, Bowman, Suppeland,

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

            Chairman Riddle, Russell, Hanson, and Olson

GUESTS PRESENT

Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications, Lisa Miller, DeKalb Police Department

ALSO PRESENT

Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer;

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  A motion to amend the
agenda to remove “Discussion on Financing PSAP Phone System” made by Feithen and seconded by Rosemier.  The motion passed. A motion to approve the agenda, with the amendment, was made by Suppeland and seconded by Feithen. The motion passed. 

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the May 7, 2008 meeting was made by Feithen, and seconded by Rosemier.  The motion passed. 

Treasurer’s Report

·        Monthly Treasurers Report- was presented and discussed.

• A motion to approve monthly report was made by Young and seconded by Rosemier.  Motion passed.

·        Bills Not Previously Submitted:

o       None Presented.

Bills:

A motion to pay the bills was made by Rosemier and seconded by Feithen.  A roll call vote was taken:  Leoni- Y, Feithen -Y, Rosemier- Y, Young- Y, Bowman- Y, and Suppeland- Y

Old Business

• Fire Radio Reports

o       Feyerherm reported the following:

-   No Report

• MABAS

o       Feyerherm reported the following:

There is a need for a new voter for MABAS before the fire voter can be used for MABAS.  Suppeland made a motion to approve the additional expenditure of three (3) new cards of an expense not to exceed $5,000.00 was seconded by Young.  Motion passed.

• Prairie Shield

o     Motion was made by Feithen to pay the DeKalb Police Department portion of the Prairie Shield bill in two payments.  One half would be paid immediately and the other half would be paid on June 26, 2008.  Motion was seconded by Rosemier, motion passed.  Payment of this bill was approved in previous meetings.

o     G. Johnson reported via e-mail: There was a meeting on May 12, 2008 with 3M and 3M was experiencing an issue with their phone system vendor dealing with the ALI display and 3M is working to get the issue corrected.

o     C. Johnson provided a list of all property that meets the law dealing with PS ALI to G. Johnson.  G. Johnson will review the lists later this month and work on a letter to be reviewed by the ETSB before it is to be sent out.

NEW BUSINESS

• Participating Agency Requests –  none

• PSAP Administrators' Report –

  • G. Johnson reported via e-mail a PSAP Managers meeting was held on 5/15/08 to start discussing the SOP rewrite.  Examples were handed out of different copies of SOPs for the PSAP Managers to review.  We will be meeting again later this month or in July to continue the process.

• Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  none

• Coordinator’s Report – Johnson’s report covered the following items via e-mail since she was not in attendance of the meeting:

• Verizon- Has started the install of the CML SMART Position in my office.  They are to complete that install while I am gone this week.

• Increase in the Verizon Monthly bill- The monthly bill for selective routing and database services increased approximately $1200.00 a month from last year.   Johnson is working on trying to compare the bills from this year to last year to make sure that the increase is valid. Johnson has requested some additional info from Verizon and she is waiting for Verizon to respond.

• Verizon has provided a new trouble procedure and that has been forwarded to the PSAPs.

• MSAG and ALI Database Errors- Johnson continued to work on those issues as Johnson had been the past three months.

• Sheriff Office PSAP Phone System- Johnson has worked with other reps with in the county and Verizon on this issue. 

• Training- Johnson attended an Active Shooter Class 5/29/08.  That is an excellent class that is provided by APCO.

• Johnson was out of the office for one week on vacation in May.

• Johnson is at the National NENA Conference this week.

ADJOURNMENT

Rosemier moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Suppeland.    The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:06 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

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Glenna Johnson, Coordinator

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