SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

Meeting August 14, 2003 in Markham started at 19:30.

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

(X) President Roger Mumford (Steger)

( ) Vice President Bob Small (Oak Forest)

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

( ) 1st Director Art Johnson (Sauk Village)

(X) 2nd Director James Dean (Hometown)

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

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

1.(X)Blue Island Bill Claessens

2.(X)Calumet City James Meincke, Peter Bugizski

3.( )Chicago Heights Michael Pope

4.( )Cook County Bill Dorgan

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

6.(X)Crestwood Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton Sandy Patlak, Bob Claessens

8.(X)Hometown James Dean, Joe Kouba

9.(X)Lynwood John A. Levon Jr.

11.(X)Midlothian Michael Tryon, Chris Tryon

11.(X)Mokena Greg McElyea

12.( )New Lenox William Potocki

13.(X)Oak Forest Joe Pilch

14.( )Orland Hills Jack Leddin

15.(X)Peotone Joel Werner, David Goodwine

16.(X)Rich Township John Ranieri, Jeff Schoeling

17.( )Riverdale Tim Kruszynski

18.( )Sauk Village Art Johnson

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

20.(X)Steger Roger Mumford

21.( )Thornton Rob Claus

22.(X)Tinley Park Jim Dzurny, Steve Clemmer

23.( )Will County Harold Damron

24.( )Red Cross Yvette Alexander

25.( )State Region 4 Ron Carlson

GUEST: R. Reed, M. Reid Crete ESDA and Dean Bloom independent.

Opening Pledge & Prayer James Bibbs

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by Dave Goodwine, 2^nd by John Ranieri.

CORRESPONDENCE:

Steger homecoming parade noon Aug 23^rd meet at ESDA garage.

South Holland Heritage fest Friday 29^th & Sat 30^th need traffic control help.

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking account has $418.54, the money market has $3,719.47, the CD has $2914.47, and the total of all accounts equals $7,052.48.

Motion by Jeff Schoeling 2^nd by John Levon to accept treasurers’ report.

TRAINING:

Jim Dzurny wrote up some training standards and gave them to the committee members to look over. Next month the committee will have a recommendation. Next meeting is 8/26 7:00 PM at Tinley Park.

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Wednesday afternoon about 14:30 and Thursday at 15:30 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.

Bob Small & Joe Pilch attended a meeting with Christ Hospital on communications, this is hospital district 7. The meeting was requesting Amateur Radio operators to help with communications.

Some members said there was problems accessing the SMART web site. Joe Pilch will check with John Dobner to see if the server had problems.

EQUIPMENT:

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

Markham is putting together a mobile command center they are in the process of converting a bus.

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

No Report

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No Report

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Nothing happening to affect us.

State is falling behind on tax collection. So tax refunds will be or not be distributed late.

Jim Dean is on the Cook County Emergency Planning Committee and they need a representative from a Hospital on the committee.

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

Conference in April.

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Conference is September 2^rd, 3^th, & 4^th 2003 in Springfield at the Crown Plaza. Word has it that the conference is sold out.

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No Report

Member/Membership Status:

Nothing new

OLD BUSINESS:

Jim Dzurny talked about CERT Community Emergency Response Team training. He (Tinley Park) could train or have state come in and conduct a train the trainer class.

Some information about the course; 20 hours, 2 hours practical, scheduled Monday – Friday 7-10, class size is 20 people, location would be Tinley Park, manuals & guides are part of grant. On completion you receive a certificate & card and are registered through state. You in turn form a citizen Corp in your community, there isn’t a specific number of people you need to recruit to form this group.

CERT kits cost are about $40.00 a basic kit has; vest, gloves, goggles, etc.

CERT was started in California after disasters out there. Check out the FEMA web site for more information at www.fema.org.

Your Citizen Corp can include business, education, church, and other groups to form your own Citizen Corp.

NEW BUSINESS:

Country Club Hills was honored with receiving the Governor’s hometown award. Country Club Hills went to receive the award in September. One reason they won the award because their group membership expanded 4 times.

ADJOURNED at 20:45 August 14, 2003. Motion by Joe Kouba 2^nd by John Ranieri.

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:

August 14 Markham

September 11 Dolton

October 9 New Lenox

November 13 Sauk Village

December 11 NO MEETING