SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting February 13, 2003 in Chicago Heights started at 19:32.

 

COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT:

(X) = Present at meeting        SMART Officers

(X)     President                    Roger Mumford     (Steger)

(X)  Vice President           Bob Small          (Oak Forest)

(X)     Secretary/Treasurer         Joe Pilch          (Oak Forest)

(X)  1st Director            Art Johnson     (Sauk Village)

( )  2nd Director            James Dean     (Hometown)

(X)  3rd Director            John Ranieri     (Rich Township)

(X)  4^th Director            John Thomas     (South Holland)

 

Communities                  SMART Coordinator/Representative

1.( )Blue Island              Bill Claessens

2.(X)Calumet City            Len Chiaro, James Meincke

3.(X)Chicago Heights        Michael Pope, David Habecker

4.( )Cook County              Kevin Philipps, John Pluta,

5.(X)Country Club Hills          Bob Gibson

6.( )Crestwood                   Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt

8.(X)Hometown                Joe Kouba, Janice Beinski

9.( )Lynwood                 John Levon Jr.

10.(X)Markham     Charles Wilson, Everett

11.(X)Midlothian             Edward Henschel, Christopher Tryon

11.(X)Mokena          Greg McElyea

12.( )New Lenox          William Potocki

13.(X)Oak Forest              Bob Small, Joe Pilch

14.( )Orland Hills               Jack Leddin

15.(X)Peotone                Donna Werner, Joel Werner,

                              David Goodwine

16.(X)Richton Park           John Dobner, Dean Bloom

17.(X)Rich Township            John Ranieri, Bob Russell

                              Jeff Schoeling

18.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

19.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson, Adam Hofman

20.(X)South Holland             John Thomas, Ralph Turner

21.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford

22.(X)Thornton                    Rob Claus

23.( )Tinley Park           Steve Clemmer

24.(X)Will County            Harold Damron

25.( )Red Cross               Yevette Alexander

26.( )State Region 4       Ron Carlson

 

GUEST:     Crete ESDA Ruth Reed, Art Bednar, & Martin P.

Opening Pledge & Prayer         James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by John Ranieri, 2^{nd by} Jeff Schoeling.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

None

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking account has $2,320.87, the money market has $2,238.52, the CD has $3,994.82, equals $9,208.62.  Motion by Ralph Turner 2^nd by John Thomas to accept treasurers’ report.

Haven’t received dues 2002-2003 from Dolton, Lynwood, Markham, & Orland Hills.

 

TRAINING:

CC Hills Severe Weather spotters April 8^th 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM.

 

South Holland Disaster tabletop sponsored by SSMMA will be held March 6^th 170^th & South Park.  Call John Thomas if you would like to observe.  More of these Tabletops will be done throughout the South Suburban area.  Till all towns have been covered.  This training may be on going.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

Bob Small sent a SMART page Thursday morning at around 10:05 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTELs.

 

Bob Small (1401) paged February 7 to let you know the threat level was elevated.

 

The Emergency Broadcast system includes radio stations WBBM, WGN, WLS, is back on the air again.

 

We need to know everyone’s NEXTEL phone number and/or pager number.  Your direct connect code for NEXTEL is also useful to communicate at events or when calling for assistance.

 

Readiness review survey needs to be turned in it can still be faxed to Bob Small at 708/687-7606.

 

EQUIPMENT:

Keep John Dobner updated on changes of, phone numbers, Vehicles, equipment, PAGERS, NEXTEL’s etc.

 

John Dobner handed out the equipment update sheet again, but this time gave everyone 15 minutes to fill it out.

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

No Report

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

Weather Spotter classes are scheduled for March 6^th 10:00 AM Frankfort Fire Station 3, at 1:30 PM Will County Office 2^nd floor, and at 7:00 PM place TBA.

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

No Report

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

Conference April 14 through 16 in Springfield.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Conference is September 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th 2003 in Springfield at the Crown Plaza.

 

Mike Chamness is the Acting Director of for State EMA.

 

Hawkinson is Homeland Security Director replacing Mark Bettenhausen.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No Report

 

Members Status:

No Report

 

OLD BUSINESS:

The plastic ID cards that were to be done by Tinley Park can’t be done.

John Dobner has done some research on ID card makers.  The one he believes will do what we need costs about $1420.

Motion by Art Johnson to buy the ID machine 2^nd by Joe Kuba.

 

Amendments to the By-Laws were submitted to amend Article II to add (d) & (e) also Article III change (f).  First reading for amendments was tonight.   Need to be read at 2 more meetings and voted on.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

You should check with your community on the update on alert status that FBI sent out.  Next 2 weeks could be critical.

 

Does your organization pay for sirens and their maintenance?  Some communities have this built into the ESDA budget others the community funds the expenses.  Dolton said they are on a limited budget now.  They now have to have all expenses approved even though they have a budget to run the department.  They aren’t the only ones in this situation other communities have budget freezes too.

 

John Dobner attended a presentation by DeVry Technology.  They talked about needing projects for their seniors to work on for experience.

(A) John would like to have DeVry bring the SMART Web Site up another notch.  The cost is nothing except for material DeVry would need to do the project.  DeVry will give us a projected cost ahead of time on the project.  One example John gave would be to have each Community able to update the information with passwords.

(B) Another suggestion John Dobner had was to have SMART web site, and any other towns web site, put on a server based somewhere in one of the SMART communities.  This is another project DeVry could give us a cost estimate on.

John will contact DeVry to see if we can get our name on the list to do the web site improvement project (A).

 

ADJOURNED at 20:58 February 13, 2003.  Motion by Sandy Patlak 2^nd by Art Johnson to adjourn.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

NEXTEL (708)473-2609

jpilch@ameritech.net

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2003 Meetings dates & host:

 

February     13        Chicago Heights

March     13        Tinley Park

April     10        Oak Forest

May       8         Blue Island

June      12        South Holland

July      10        Steger

August     14        Markham

September     11        Dolton

October     9         New Lenox

November     13        Sauk Village

December     11        NO MEETING