January 7, 2009

CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Riddle called the meeting to order at 3:37 PM.

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

Chairman Riddle, Bowman, Feithen, Hanson, Harrison, Metzger. Olson arrived at 3:43pm.  Leoni arrived at 4:00pm. 

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

            Mitchell and Suppeland

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; Glenna Johnson, E911 Coordinator

AGENDA

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

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the December 3, 2008 meeting was made by Metzger and seconded by Bowman.  The motion passed.  A motion to approve the Executive Closed Session minutes of the December 3, 2008 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Harrison.  The motion passed. 

Treasurer’s Report

·        Monthly Treasurers Report- was presented and discussed.

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

·        Bills Not Previously Submitted:

• A bill was presented at the meeting:

  • NIU Police Department submitted a bill for $218.00 for Power Phone EMD Class registration.

  • Motion was made to approve the month bill report with these additions by Metzger and seconded by Feithen.  Motion passed.

Bills:

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

Old Business

·        Fire Radio Reports

o       Feyerherm reported the following: 

-         Heaters at all radio sites are working fine.

·        MABAS

o       Feyerherm reported the following: He still needs to complete the install at the Sheriff Department PSAP.

·        Private Switched ALI (PS ALI)

o       G. Johnson presented a draft copy of the letter provided by Hanson.  Board discussed using that letter for the mailings to the PS ALI users.

NEW BUSINESS

• Legislative Issues- None

• Participating Agency Requests –  None

• PSAP Administrators' Report –

  • G. Johnson reported the last meeting was held 12/16/08.  Next meeting will be January 14, 2009 at noon; location will be at Glenna’s Office.

• Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  None

• Coordinator’s Report – Johnson reported the following:

o       Verizon-

• CPE Maintenance- Ongoing, amount was incorrect will report next month the status.

o       Wireless Carrier Issue- Still working on cell tower routing issues.

o       Region 3 Meeting update- I attended the first Exec Board Meeting on 12/04/08.

o       Xstream Demo- 12-16-08 emergency notification system for wireless phones.  End users would need to register their phones for system to work.

o       TDC/ODC and Winter Summit – 2/16/09 - 2/20/09

§         Location is Orlando, FL

§         These conferences are work sessions- the Winter Summit conference will be a learning conference dealing with radios and the TDC/ODC will be a conference dealing with the standards of the future on equipment for NG911.

·        Riddle made a motion for Johnson to attend these conferences and it was seconded by Olson.  Motion Passed.

o       ICC report – I will be working on this is due Jan 31, 2009

o       EMD classes – I will be working on this during the month.  Metzger provided info on training being offered at Elgin Community College.

o       NG911- it was discussed the possibility of working with Ogle County as a back up.  Hanson mentioned that he attended a meeting dealing with a fiber route along I39 for this use.

ADJOURNMENT

Olson moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Bowman.    The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:05 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

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Glenna Johnson, Coordinator

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