CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Riddle called the meeting to order at 3:34 PM

ROLL CALL

Board members present:

Chairman Riddle, Bowman, Feithen, Hanson, Leoni, Olson, and Suppeland.

       Board members absent:

               Rosemier, Russell, and Young

Guests Present:

Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police Glenna Johnson, Geo-Comm.

Also Present:

Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator

 

AGENDA

The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda.  Hanson asked at add two, new business items: Discussion of a NG911 he attended, and a discussion of changing the ETSB fiscal year. A motion to approve the agenda as amended was made by Olson and seconded by Feithen.  There was no discussion.  The motion passed. 

MINUTES

The minutes of the May meeting are no longer available.  There was a quorum and bills were ordered paid.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

¨      Treasurer’s Report:

¨      Treasurer Johnson presented the May report.

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

There was no discussion. The motion passed unanimously.

·        Bills Not Previously Approved:   None

·        Bills:

Frederick Technology	1,500.00
NiComm LLC	1,580.00
Charles Kross	1,980.00
Micro Data GIS, Inc.	22,140.00
Language Line Services	246.15
First Bankcard (Gary Hanson)	102.00
Joe Przybyla (NIU P.D.)	102.00
Gary Hanson (DeKalb County Finance)	224.21
AT&T	28.26
Housing Authority of the County of DeKalb	200.00
Verizon	34.53
Verizon	46.61
Verizon	221.50
Verizon	19,236.40
Verizon	227.91
Verizon	304.96
Verizon	76.21
Verizon	2,439.66
DeKalb County Government - IMO	14,500.00
DeKalb County Government - IMO	9,000.00
Verizon Select Services, Inc.	2,439.66
TOTAL	76,630.06

                     

                     

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

 

¨      Fire Radio reports

Jim Feyerherm from Starved Rock Communications was unable to attend the meeting, but emailed the following information. The week prior to our June meeting, the High Rise took a direct hit from lightning about 2:00 A.M.  It damaged many of the channel bank cards within the cabinets.  It disrupted most of the Fire Radio system. The backup radios worked and he had everything except the Kirkland tower back in operation within about two hours.  He didn’t have enough spare equipment to get Kirkland back on the air.  He ordered replacement equipment including replacing his spare stock and he got Kirkland back up the next morning.  He thought the cost will be about $3600.  Everything is working at the present time.

 

He also reported that the DeKalb Police Department Fire Radio backup system will be operational next week.

 

A Village of Somonauk representative told Feyerherm that it will probably be at least the first quarter of 2008 before their tower will be ready to have our equipment installed.

 

NEW BUSINESS

¨      Participating Agency Requests - none

¨      PSAP Administrators' Report – No report.

¨      Persons to be Heard from the Floor – No one

¨      Coordinator’s Report – No report

¨      Discussion of NG 911 Seminar

Hanson told the Board that he had attended a seminar regarding Next Generation 911 in Springfield.  He explained that one of the major problems facing 911 currently is that Voice over Internet Protocol  (VoIP) does not easily integrate with the current system of wire lines and wireless phones.  VoIP requires the use of internet protocol (IP) and may or may not incorporate wire line transmission.  Currently there is no funding available to work this problem out.  Additionally, once the technical problems have been worked out, the Telecommunicators will require additional training of the various call taking methods.  Another issue is that of no national or international standards have been set yet for this protocol.   

 

On the positive side is that PSAPs all over the country (world?) can quickly and easily communicate with one another.  It allows callers to access a PSAP from a number of different platforms.  He said the Board is on the verge of having to deal with these issues.

 

¨      Changing Fiscal Year

Hanson informed the Board that the County was changing their fiscal year to the calendar year in 2008.  He suggested that the ETS Board do the same, since the Treasurer’s office would be placing everyone else on the calendar year.  The Board will have to develop a budget for the month of December 2007, and then one for the calendar year 2008, which will then be from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008.

Olson then moved that the ETSB change from a fiscal year of December through November to that of January through December.  Feithen seconded the motion.  There was no further discussion.  The motion passed unanimously.

Olson moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni.  The motion passed.   The meeting adjourned at   4:12   P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

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Charles Kross, Coordinator