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Minutes of the E911 Board 

October 1, 2008


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Minutes of the Board Meeting of

October 1, 2008

 

CALL TO ORDER

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

 

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

Chairman Riddle, Leoni, Hanson, Mitchell, Olson, Rosemier, Suppeland.

 

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

            Bowman, Feithen, Harrison,

 

GUESTS PRESENT

Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff Department; Curtis Young, Northern Illinois University

 

ALSO PRESENT

Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Glenna Johnson, E911 Coordinator

 

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  The motion was made by Olson and seconded by Leoni to approve the agenda.  The motion passed.

 

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the September 3, 2008 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Olson.  The motion passed. 

 

Treasurer’s Report

·        Monthly Treasurers Report- was presented and discussed.

      • A motion to approve monthly report was made by Hanson and seconded by Olson.  Motion passed.

 

·        Bills Not Previously Submitted:

      • Two bills were presented at the meeting:

        •             Power Phone Bill for Sandwich PD- $1745.00

        •             IPSTA Registration for County- Lisa Winckler- $125.00

 

Bills:

 

Bills Paid in October 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Powerphone - Sandwich EMD Training

$1,745.00

 

 

Castle Bank Visa (2008 IL APCO INENA-L. Winckler)

$125.00

 

 

Language Line Services

$348.04

 

 

Biddle Consulting Group (CritiCall)

$999.00

 

 

Word Systems, Inc.

$2,385.56

 

 

IPSTA-2008 IL APCO INENA (Lt. Darren Mitchell-NIU)

$125.00

 

 

Dell Computer Corporation (E911 cleaning tape)

$58.17

 

 

DeKalb County Treasurer - Accounting Services

$3,750.00

 

 

IPSTA-2008 IL APCO INENA (Ben Suppeland)

$125.00

 

 

Glenna Johnson

$125.90

 

 

Verizon     AA0-2381

$80.92

 

 

Verizon     AA0-3030

$60.98

 

 

Verizon     900-9656

$17,642.15

 

 

Verizon     899-8838

$34.21

 

 

Verizon     786-7384

$47.22

 

 

Verizon     QL4-9093

$223.72

 

 

Verizon     QL0-4779

$230.23

 

 

Verizon     QL4-7793

$230.23

 

 

Verizon     QR0-4142

$305.01

 

 

Verizon     UH1-6056

$76.22

 

 

Total

$28,717.56

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             

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

 

Old Business

·        Fire Radio Reports

o       Feyerherm reported the following: 

-         Somonauk Tower- Waiting on the City of Somonauk.  This installation could be done in October but may not be done for a couple of months.

-         Replaced UPS batteries at the High Rise.

-         Working with Steve R. dealing with the Mobile Command Vehicle to get ready for Home Coming at NIU.

·        MABAS

o       Feyerherm reported the following: Receivers are in and will work at the County PSAP with in the next 2 weeks to finish the install.

 

·        Private Switched ALI (PS ALI)

o       G. Johnson has no update at this time.

 

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

  • Budget Committee-

    • Committee will meet in October to prepare the 2009 budget for ETSB review in November and the committee will be the same as last year and that is:

      • Bill Riddle, Bill Feithen, Rick Olson, Gary Hanson, Glenna Johnson and Christine Johnson

  • Participating Agency Requests –  none

 

  • PSAP Administrators' Report –

    • G. Johnson reported the last meeting was held 9/10/08.  Next meeting will be October 8, 2008 at noon; location will be at Glenna’s Office.

 

  • Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  

    •             Chief Olson wanted to go on record to “thank” Glenna Johnson for her help she has provided with items for the Police Department.

    •             Chairman Riddle presented a plaque to Curtis Young as recognition of his dedication and years of service to the ETSB.

 

  • Coordinator’s Report – Johnson reported the following:

    • Verizon- SMART working

    • Billing- I have sent a letter that I do not agree with calculations- still waiting to hear results

      • Router Move- 1st quarter 2009, we will be the first county to move to the DMS 100 away from the ECS1000 for selective routing only.

      • CML Demo- 9-29-08 on the Patriot.  This is the Verizon new solution for NG911

    • MSAG Issue- minor issues

    • County Phone System-We received pricing and we will meet to discuss

    • microDATA- e-mail sent did not agree with pricing/deal given- still waiting but did provide new pricing for a new system for map upgrade and NG911

    • Special Comments- Verizon will discontinue with ALI move to ALISA in Fort Wayne, IN and Temple Terrace, FL and that is to be done 10/30/08.  Need other options.

    •  Prairie Shield- will be looking for grant monies for NG911 equipment.  All of Prairie Shield systems received an invitation from Balanced IT to view a demo with Boeing and Balanced IT on October 17th dealing with a first responder alert system.

    • Wireless Carrier Issue- Calls are routing to Ogle County- default routed and there are overflow issues.  There are 2 trunks for 3 counties. ATT will be installing new trunks for DeKalb County

    • Training will be hosted in Ogle and DeKalb Counties - To cut costs for recertification and on going yearly requirements for EMD- 12 hours per year or total of 48 hours for four years for recertification.

      • I will be preparing a spreadsheet for required training for all Telecommunicators for budget purposes.

      • I will be scheduling EMD – Fire and Police, Terrorist and non emergency call handling ( avoid burnout and phone etiquette)  Ogle has scheduled Domestic Violence, Stress Identification, Suicide intervention and Active shooter

    • IPSTA- I will be attending.

                                   

 

ADJOURNMENT

 

Olson moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.    The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:15 P.M.

           

Respectfully submitted,

 

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Glenna Johnson, Coordinator

 

OFFICERS

NAME

TERM (One Year)

Chairman

Mr. Bill Riddle

December 1, 2005 - November 30, 2008

Vice-Chairman

Mr. Carl Leoni

December 1, 2005 - November 30, 2008

Secretary

Mr. Ed Bowman

December 1, 2005 - November 30, 2008

Treasurer

Ms. Christine Johnson

Per Statute, County Treasurer

Coordinator

Ms. Glenna Johnson

At-Will Employee, Board Appointment

 

 

CURRENT

Members

Entity Represented

ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT

TERM EXPIRES

Robert Rosemier

County Board Member

04/16/2003

11/30/2008

Gary Hanson

County Chief Financial Officer

01/19/2000

11/30/2009

Bill Feithen

DeKalb Police Chief

12/16/1998

11/30/2011

Bruce Harrison

Acting DeKalb Fire Chief

07/17/2002

11/30/2011

Carl Leoni

DeKalb Police Lieutenant

08/15/2001

11/30/2009

Darren Mitchell

N.I.U. Police Lieutenant

09/17/08

11/30/2009

Rick Olson

Sandwich Police Chief

12/15/1999

11/30/2011

Bill Riddle

Sycamore Fire Chief

06/21/2000

11/30/2011

Ed Bowman

 Waterman Fire Chief

11/21/2001

11/30/2009

Ben Suppeland

 At-Large

11/15/1993

11/30/2009

 

 


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