DeKalb County

Minutes of the Board Meeting of

September 01, 2010

CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Riddle called the meeting to order at 3:36 pm

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:

Chairman Riddle, Feithen, Harrison, Leoni, Mitchell, Newby, and Olson

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

            Hanson, Metzger, and VanLanduyt,

GUESTS PRESENT

Jim Feyerherm Starved Rock Communications; Cary Singer, Sycamore Police Department; Mark Kessler, Sycamore Fire Department; Lisa Miller, DeKalb Police Department; Mark Lovell, Jeremy Alexander, City of DeKalb;

ALSO PRESENT

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

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  The agenda was changed to move the DeKalb Fire Department Radio Request to the beginning of the agenda.  The motion was made by Olson and seconded by Newby to approve agenda with that change.  The motion passed.

MINUTES

A motion to approve the minutes of the August 4, 2010 meeting was made by Olson and seconded by Newby. The motion passed

Treasurer’s Report

• Monthly Treasurers Report- was presented and discussed.

• A motion to approve monthly report was made by Newby  and seconded by Mitchell.  Motion passed.

• Bills Not Previously Submitted: None

Bills:           

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

Old Business

• Fire Radio Reports
• Feyerherm reported the following:
• Genoa Kingston Paging Issue- Frontier has completed this installation to their termination point but the cable has not been buried to the location that Starved Rock needs to be terminated at.  Jim has talked to the City of Genoa to possibly bury the cable.
• Inventory of Sites- Jim F. provided the board with an updated book of all equipment at the microwave sites.
• UPS at Waterman- UPS went down caused by a large power surge and Jim has ordered a new logic board to repair it.

• DeKalb Fire Department Radio Request

• Harrison provided a copy of the final price request utilizing a fiber optic infrastructure
• The proposal had six phases for the total figure of $175,922.80.
• The board discussed the total proposal and what were the options and what phases of the project needed to be done immediately
• There was also discussion on a proposal that Starved Rock had submitted to the city and the differences between the two proposals.
• Harrison mentioned that they are in a crisis situation and the decision needs to be made during the meeting.  There are issues with the current infrastructure because of the storm issues in the past few months.
• A motion was made by Feithen and seconded by Olson to approve the purchase of Phase 1, 2 and 3 from the request for a total of $85,402.80.  A roll call vote was taken: Chairman Riddle- Y, Feithen- Y, Harrison-Y, Leoni- Y, Mitchell- Y, Newby- Y, and Olson-Y. Motion passed.

NEW BUSINESS

• Rave Wireless- Smart911 was demoed prior to the ETSB Meeting.

• Legislation- Johnson stated new legislation is to be introduced by EM Finders, a tracking device that is for Alzheimer’s patients that have strayed from home that APCO/NENA has approved that allows calls from that device that alerts the PSAPs with locations of the patient.  There were very little changes on the legislation and most items have been tabled until fall session.

• Participating Agency Requests – 

• Sheriff Office- A request that the ETSB split the cost of replacement of an air conditioner at the radio trailer in Sycamore.  The ETSB split total would be $1150.00. Motion was made to approve that purchase by Olson and seconded by Leoni. Motion passed.
• Sandwich PSAP- Current UPS needs to be replaced.  Johnson will purchase a small UPS in order to get a power back up at the PSAP until a large UPS can be purchased to support all 911 equipment in the PSAP.

• PSAP Administrators' Report –

• G. Johnson reported that a meeting was held August 11, 2010.  Next meeting would be 9/15/10 1:00pm at Johnson’s office. Items discussed at the meeting were:

• SOP rewrite
• Public Education Items
• NIU Mailer
• EMD

• Persons to be Heard from the Floor -  None

• Coordinator’s Report – Johnson reported the following:

• VoIP Carrier Surcharge Monies- One Carrier did submit all monies that had not been paid previously.  Johnson will continue to research carriers that have not been paying surcharge monies to the ETSB.

• Frontier- still waiting for responses on outstanding issues

• ICC Administrative Code rewrite- Meeting was to be held the day of the ETSB Meeting Johnson will get an update at the INENA Meeting tomorrow.

• Vendor Meeting during August

• microDATA, Motorola, 911 Inc., GeoComm

ADJOURNMENT

Olson moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Harrison.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 4:55pm.

Respectfully submitted,

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Glenna Johnson, Coordinator

10 Board Members Serving 4 year Staggered Terms, Except the County Board Member is a 2 Year Term.

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