Minutes of the Board Meeting of

March 4, 2009

CALL TO ORDER

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

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

Chairman Riddle, Bowman, Feithen, Hanson, Harrison, Leoni, Metzger, Mitchell, Olson. Feithen arrived at 3:38pm.  Bowman arrived at 3:40pm. 

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

            Suppeland

GUESTS PRESENT

Lisa Miller, DeKalb Police Department, Cary Singer, Sycamore Police Department

ALSO PRESENT

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

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda. An amendment was made to add the Resolution to amend the 2008 FY budget. The motion was made by Olson and seconded by Leoni to approve the amended agenda.  The motion passed.

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the January 7, 2009 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 Olson and seconded by Harrison.  Motion passed.

• Bills Not Previously Submitted:

• None

Bills:

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

Old Business

• Fire Radio Reports
• Feyerherm reported the following via conversation with G. Johnson: 
• Radio Outage caused by electrical fire at 507 E. Taylor penthouse and generator malfunctioned
• ETSB/County did not experience an outage
• DeKalb Police Department did experience an outage dealing with the UPS failure. DeKalb City moved to a different radio channel for the city and outage was minimal because of that. There will be a meeting to discuss the outage and what needs to be done for the future.  G. Johnson will set up that meeting.

• MABAS
• Feyerherm reported the following via phone conversation with G. Johnson: He will be working with Motorola on 2/5/09 to complete the install at the DeKalb County Sheriff PSAP.

• Private Switched ALI (PS ALI)
• G. Johnson stated she had mailed any letters and will be starting that process in February.

NEW BUSINESS

• Resolution to Amend 2008 Fiscal Year Budget
• C. Johnson presented the resolution for the board’s approval of the amendment for the 2008 budget.    
• A motion to approve the resolution was made by Feithen and seconded by Olson.  A roll call vote was taken: Chairman Riddle- Y, Bowman-Y, Feithen- Y, Hanson- Y, Harrison- Y, Leoni- Y, Metzger- Y, Mitchell- Y, and Olson- Y.

• Legislative Issues-
• NENA goes to Springfield- Johnson stated that NENA had asked for involvement from the ETSB to support this meeting.  This is similar to what is being done by NENA on a national level.  The national level program has been very successful.
• G. Johnson will be attending the Springfield session on April 22, 2009. 

• Participating Agency Requests –  None

• PSAP Administrators' Report –
• G. Johnson reported the last meeting was held 1/14/09.  Next meeting will be March 11, 2009 at noon; location will be at Glenna’s Office.
• Items discussed were EMD training, Map Display- Sheila Santos attended the meeting and discussed map issues/items.

• Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  None

• Coordinator’s Report – Johnson reported the following:

• Verizon CPE Maintenance- this is an ongoing issue, the amount was incorrect on the bills for the PSAPs.  Johnson will report next month the status. Verizon will have to cancel the original billing orders to provide a bill at the correct amount.  Final billing amount should be $20,070.96 not $29,081.76.
• Wireless Carrier Issue- Still working on cell tower routing issues.
• Region 3 Meeting and State INENA update- As the new Region 3 VP I did hold a meeting 1/29/09.  Attended the 1/08/09 state INENA meeting.
• Regional 911/NG911- seven counties will be working together to look at new equipment and networks to see if there is a way to build an efficient regional 911 system with NG911and not stand alone systems as we are today to help with costs and redundancy.
• TDC/ODC and Winter Summit – I will be going to these conferences on 2/16/09 - 2/20/09
• ICC Report- Completed this report on Jan 31, 2009
• Wireline Access Line Counts- There seems to be an increase on these totals.  I will be investigating that because the surcharge monies are dropping not going up.
• Wireless Access Line Counts-  These totals seem to continue to increase

ADJOURNMENT

Olson moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.    The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:10 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

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