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DeKalb County, Illinois |
Minutes of the
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Board members present: Guests Present: Lt. Al Newby, DeKalb County Sheriff's Police; Brent Tillman, DeKalb Police Department; Glenna Johnson, GeoComm Also Present: Christine Johnson, DeKalb County Treasurer; Charles Kross, Coordinator Chairman Olson called
the meeting to order at 7:36 AM
AGENDA The Chairman asked for any amendments to the agenda. There were none. A motion to approve the agenda was made by Leoni and seconded by Russell. There was no discussion. The motion passed.
MINUTES A motion to approve the minutes of the November 6, 2002 meeting was made by Hanson and seconded by Leoni. The motion passed.
OLD BUSINESS: ¨ Treasurer’s Report: A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Russell and seconded by Riddle. The motion passed. § Bills Not Previously Approved: There were none. § Bills: PowerPhone $ 600.00 DeKalb County Housing Authority 200.00 Verizon 2,0020.54 Verizon 29.04 Verizon 305.47 Verizon 73.88 Verizon 33.74 Verizon 41.88 Verizon 109.63 Language Line 109.50 Office Max 15.59 NENA - Suppeland dues 75.00 Dixon/Ottawa/Dixon Communications - Sandwich 440.00 City of DeKalb - DeKalb Police Department split - laptops 20,589.00 Starved Rock Communications - fire 1,425.00 PSConsultants- Sandwich 260.00 D-Phone 7,083.00 Total $51,411.27 A motion to pay the bills was made by Suppeland and seconded by Hanson. A roll call vote was taken: Feithen Y Hanson Y Leoni Y Pettit Y Russell Y Suppeland Y Riddle Y Olson Y. The motion passed unanimously. § Waterman Fire Radio tower - There was nothing new to report. § Sycamore/Genoa/DeKalb County Sheriff's Police merger Riddle reported that the contract between DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, the City of Genoa, Genoa Fire Department and Genoa Rescue is being completed. DeKalb County Sheriff's Police had 11 new Telecommunicators (TCs) sworn in. Four of them will be stationed at Sycamore Police Department until the switchover is completed. The combined dispatch startup is anticipated in February with the final cut over in March or April. Four TCs are currently being trained. § Personnel Committee Russell made a motion for the meeting to go into an executive session to discuss personnel matters. Feithen seconded. The motion passed unanimously. The Board retired into a closed session at 7:46 AM, and resumed the regular meeting at 7:49 AM. Chairman Olson explained the pay/benefit package, for the Coordinator, being considered by the Board. It included a 3% raise, which is equivalent to $. 50 per hour, bringing the hourly rate to $16.70. Office expenses were raised from $310 to $320 per month. Russell made a motion for the Board to accept the recommended pay/benefit package. Feithen seconded. The motion passed unanimously. Coordinator Kross accepted the package and thanked the Board. § Board composition - Kross reported that while he was researching the requirement for a County Board member to be a member of the ETSB, he discovered that the City of Genoa was originally granted a position on the ETSB. Apparently, when the City of Genoa removed itself from being a PSAP, the Board position became an at-large position. The DeKalb County Ordinance was not changed to reflect this. Kross discussed the issue with the States Attorney, who advised that the ETSB should notify the County Board of the changes and request that the Ordinance be amended. Feithen stated that the City of DeKalb was not in favor of enlarging the number of board members for the ETSB. Hanson suggested that this was the time that the ETSB should look at the total problem - perhaps at the workshop. Olson said that he would table the discussion until the January meeting. § Workshop format - Kross asked if the Board would want to bring in a Facilitator for the workshop. The consensus was no. Suppeland said that there needed to be an agenda. Feithen suggested the following and not in specific order: 1) The status of NIU's split or lack of split; 2) The distribution of WETSA money; 3) PSAPs other than the DeKalb County Sheriff's Police using funds for personnel; 4) The amount of the agency splits; 5) Use of General funds vrs. splits - what comes out; 6) Historical information . Chairman Olson said that the workshop will be held in the DeKalb Police Department Classroom on Thursday, January 23, 2003 beginning at 6:00 PM. Additional agenda items should be submitted at the January 8 Board meeting.
NEW BUSINESS § Election of Officers The Nominating Committee recommended the following officers: Richard Olson, Chairman; William Riddle, Vice-Chairman; Gary Hanson, Secretary. The Chair called for other nominations. There were none. Riddle moved to elect the nominated officers. Feithen seconded. The slated officers were elected by acclimation. ¨ Participating Agency Requests - none ¨ PSAP Administrators' Report - no report ¨ Persons to be Heard from the Floor - no one § Coordinator’s Report - 1. The monthly WETSA check was $14,896.74 for the month of June, 2002. 2. NIU Telephones - NIU pays the monthly surcharge to Verizon. At this time Kross does not know how many lines they pay for, but will have the information for the workshop. 3. Leland Merger - Kross recommended that this issue be tabled until the Board makeup issue is settled and adopted. He talked to Chief Kramer of Leland and let him know. 4. VFIS Claims Management, Inc. recommendations - VFIS is the insurance carrier for the ETSB. VFIS hired a consultant, Donald J. Klinger, of the Ideal Insurance Agency of Downers Grove, to conduct a loss control survey of the ETSB and its property. Two recommendations were made: 1) The Sandwich Police Department needs to ensure that the UPS at that site is connected to all of the 911 equipment, and 2) That each PSAP needs to be placed on a schedule of testing both the TDD/TTY equipment, and the TCs operating the equipment. Kross has already spoken with Sandwich, who will check their equipment. The PSAP Administrators of each PSAP will have to establish maintenance schedules for the TDD/TTY equipment and training schedules for their TCs. Kross will discuss this with all the Administrators. Kross will also report back to Klinger on actions taken.
ADJOURNMENT Suppeland moved to adjourn the meeting, and was seconded by Leoni. The motion passed. The meeting adjourned at 8:21 A.M.
Respectfully submitted,
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