CALL TO ORDER

Vice - Chairman Bowman called the meeting to order at 3:33 PM

ROLL CALL

Board members present:

Vice - Chairman Bowman, Hanson, Olson, Russell, Rosemier, and Suppeland.

            Board members absent: Riddle, Feithen, and Leoni.  Leoni arrived at 3:39.

Guests Present:

               Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police; Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police

Department; Sgt. John Kreutziger, NIU PD; Jim Feyerherm, Starved Rock Communications; Glenna Johnson, Geo-Comm.

Also Present:

Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda. There were none. A motion to approve the agenda was made by Russell and seconded by Olson.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed. 

MINUTES

The Chair asked for any additions or deletions from the previous meeting’s minutes.  It was pointed out that Bowman was nominated for Secretary of the Board, and not Chairman as written on page 3 of the minutes.  A motion to approve the minutes of the December 2005 meeting, as amended, was made by Olson, and seconded by Russell.  The motion passed. 

OLD BUSINESS:

      Treasurer’s Report:

A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Russell, and seconded by Rosemier.

There was no discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.

        Bills Not Previously Approved:   None

        Bills:

              Language Line                                                                                 173.40
              Verizon                                                                                              227.75                                
              Verizon                                                                                              227.75

Verizon                                                                                             304.74

Verizon                                                                                             225.13

Verizon                                                                                             116.74

Verizon                                                                                                80.00

Verizon                                                                                                48.34

Verizon                                                                                        16,436.98

Verizon                                                                                                33.77              

ATT                                                                                                      27.67                                     

Nice Systems – Maint. Agree. – Sheriff’s logger                     8,765.68   

Nicomm LLC, Sycamore split – radios reprogramming             480.00

Communications 2000 – Waterman pagers                             1,500.00

Sprint                                                                                                   12.99

                                                 Total                                         $28,660.94

A motion to pay the bills was made by Olson, and seconded by   Russell.  A roll call vote was taken:  Bowman  Y      Hanson Y   Leoni  Y  Olson Y  Rosemier  Y  Russell  Y  Suppeland  Y  Young  Y  .  The motion passed.
 

      Fire Radio reports

            Jim Feyerherm  said that he was unaware of any Fire radio problems this last month. He did       report that the US Cellular tower being installed at the Sheriff’s office will probably go online             sometime in February.

NEW BUSINESS

      Participating Agency Requests -

      PSAP Administrators' Report – No report.

      Persons to be Heard from the Floor - A brief discussion was held regarding the Board establishing a long term philosophy of how the Board should operate, fund projects and/or equipment, reimburse agencies, etc.  Nothing was decided, however Kross said that he would gather together the Ordinance establishing the ETSB, the By-Laws, Memo of understanding, etc., for each Board member to look over and discuss at some future time.

      Coordinator’s Report

            Last month it was reported that Kross would meet with NIU officials to discuss the SS7 issues   with the NIU PSAP.  Due to scheduling conflicts, that meeting was not held. He will try to             reschedule. 

ADJOURNMENT

Suppeland moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Russell.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at 3:43 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

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Charles Kross, Coordinator

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