Minutes of the Board Meeting of
August 5, 2009

CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Riddle called the meeting to order at 3:38 PM.

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
Chairman Riddle, Hanson, Leoni, Metzger, Olson and Todd Walker          

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:
            Bowman, Feithen, Harrison, Mitchell

GUESTS PRESENT
Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff Department; Lisa Miller, DeKalb Police Department; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications;   Sheila Santos, DeKalb County IMO Department

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 Metzger to approve agenda.  The motion passed.
             
MINUTES
A motion to approve the minutes of the July 1, 2009 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Leoni.  The motion passed. 

Treasurer’s Report

• Monthly Treasurers Report- was presented and discussed.

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

• Bills Not Previously Submitted: None

Bills:

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

There was a discussion dealing with VoIP carrier payments that are being made and whether the amounts are paid at the proper surcharge rate.  G. Johnson will investigate and report the results of the investigation.

Old Business

• Fire Radio Reports
• Feyerherm reported: 
• He received a call to investigate the portable radio coverage for specific areas in the rural fire departments that were experiencing issues.  He investigated up to the point that there were no charges.  His investigation found no issues with the microwave system.  If he was to investigate the problem any further there would be charges and he needs to know who to talk to about this issue before proceeding.  Riddle and G. Johnson will provide a document detailing the process at the next ETSB Meeting.

NEW BUSINESS

• 2009 NENA Conference-
• Santos provided a report that NG911 is a major factor in the ETSBs future and she discussed the many sessions she attended at the conference.  The technology is advancing and GIS will play a large role in the future of routing 911 calls. Reasons for the advancement are the types of calls like VoIP, text messages, and videos as examples.  The current technology is analog and the future is digital and open architecture.  The ETSB will need to budget to move to this new technology. 

• Legislative Issues-
• Wireless monies are starting to come in again.  The State is issuing back payments on the wireless funds for all 911 systems since the state budget has been signed.
• SB2057 is still on the Governors’ desk.  This bill deals with special needs comments are to be added to the CAD systems once the information is provided to the departments.

• Participating Agency Requests –  None

• PSAP Administrators' Report –
• G. Johnson reported the last meeting was held July 14, 2009.  Next meeting will be August 12, 2009 at noon; location will be at Glenna’s Office.
• Items discussed:
• EMD
• Narrow banding
• SB2057 comments in the CAD systems
• At the meeting on August 12th the main discussion item deals with an e-mail blast for the NIU students

• Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  None

• Coordinator’s Report – Johnson reported the following:

• Verizon -.  Johns is still working on phone installation issues.

• Wireless Carrier Issue- Johnson is still working on issues.

• Cricket Wireless- implemented their services in DeKalb County as Phase 0 without prior notification of the change from Phase 2.  They will move to Phase 2 prior to the students returning.

• NG Region Meeting- Johnson attended vendor demos on 7/15/09 microDATA and Motorola (Plant/CML) of their NG 911 products.

• NENA- NG911- Johnson continues to attend equipment and data weekly conference calls

• Legislation-

• Johnson received a letter from the ICC stating they were going to open the PART 725 for NG911 competition for database/routing providers.  Johnson stated that she would be involved in this process and INENA Region 3 would be submitting comments to the ICC by the due date as a Region. Johnson will provide the changes to the ETSB prior to sending the final document to the ICC.

• IPSTA Conference-
• Johnson covered the dates of the conference and mentioned that the members should let her know if any plan on attending.  Johnson has registered for the conference.

• New VoIP Carrier in the area-
• GeckoTech notified Johnson that they were a new carrier in the area.  They wanted to know the amount of the surcharge and where were they to send the monies collected.

• Global Connect Webinar-
• Johnson attended a demo via webinar on this ENS system.  She is receiving calls from many ENS vendors.  They are all told that the ETSB will not be able to purchase this system per the Attorney General and she will pass the information on to other entities in the county for their review.

ADJOURNMENT

Leoni moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Walker.    The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:40pm.
           
Respectfully submitted,

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Glenna Johnson, Coordinator

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