SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting April 10, 2003 in Oak Forest started at 19:32.

 

COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT: (X) = Present at meeting        SMART Officers

( )     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)

( )  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            James Meincke, Oliver Robinson

3.( )Chicago Heights        Michael Pope, David Habecker

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

5.(X)Country Club Hills          Bob Gibson, Ron Brock

6.(X)Crestwood                    Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt

8.(X)Hometown                Joe Kouba

9.( )Lynwood                 John Levon Jr.

10.( )Markham     Charles Wilson, Everett

11.(X)Midlothian             Edward Henschel

11.(X)Mokena          Greg McElyea, Bob Lynch

12.( )New Lenox          William Potocki

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

14.( )Orland Hills               Jack Leddin

15.( )Peotone                 Donna Werner, Joel Werner,

                              David Goodwine

16.(X)Richton Park           John Dobner

17.( )Rich Township            John Ranieri, Bob Russell

                              Jeff Schoeling

18.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

19.( )Sauk Village             Art Johnson, Adam Hofman

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

                              Matt Pozen

21.( )Steger                  Roger Mumford

22.( )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:   
Opening Pledge & Prayer         James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by John Thomas, 2^nd  By Ron Brock.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

MABAS email about missing propane cylinders in suburban area.  There have been reports of municipal cars broken into and books  or papers inside have been taken.  Be careful when parking your municipal cars at night or during duty.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking account has $2,320.87, the money market has $2,904.04, the CD has $4,004.02, equals $9,228.93.  Motion by  2^nd John Thomas by Ralph Turner to accept treasurers’ report.

Dues not received Dolton, Lynwood, and Markham.

 

TRAINING:

John Thomas passed out some standards material that Tinley pasted out in 1998.  We may want to have some standards set for SMART municipalities.

 

Spotters training 4/18 Hazel Crest Village Hall 170^th & Holmes 19:00.

 

Tinley Park requested to be the test site for Grant application for train the trainer stuff.

 

Bob Small & John Thomas attended meeting for Public Safety committee of SSMMA.  Sites were determined to have medication (oral meds) in case needed, but the sites weren’t disclosed at the meeting.  Will county is going through the same process and now are planning what sites to use.  There was a big discussion of how this will all happen.

 

There was an inquiry about a 1^st aid class.  If anyone is planning a 1^st Aid or First Responders course let us know.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Monday about 15:05 & Thursday at about 10:10 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTELs.

CC Hills didn’t get Thursday page.

 

EQUIPMENT:

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

 

John handed out SMART equipment updates to communities present.

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

No Report

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

March 15, 16 There is a 2 day Ground search and rescue class.  Will county has a trainer if we need him to do a class (16 hours).

 

March 26 there was training on nuclear at Dresdon.

 

Topoff is in May Will County will be helping out.

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

No Report

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

Conference in April?

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

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

New director of IEMA and the conference should be going on again.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No Report

 

Members Status:

Orland Hills sent check.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Readyness review most towns responded.

 

ID card machine has been purchased.  John passed out some samples.  We will need to decide a style.  John also needs all the pictures for the ID’s.

 

Read the by-laws change table by John Dobner 2^nd by Ron Brock.

 

John hasn’t any more information on DeVry.

 

Directors will get a copy of SMART page info to use.

 

SMART seminar come up with some ideas.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

The US Open is in Olympia Fields June 9-16^th hours are 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM.  The New Greater Chicago Auto auction will be the public parking area.  Volmer Rd between Kedzie & Western will be closed.

 

Sandy has a motor home he can get that needs work.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:45 April 10, 2003.  Motion by Sandy Patlak 2^nd by Bob Windberg.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

jpilch@ameritech.net

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2003 Meetings dates & host:

 

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