SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting May 8, 2003 in Blue Island 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)

(X)  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.(X)Blue Island              Bill Claessens, Dave Haywood

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

3.(X)Chicago Heights        Michael Pope

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, James Dean

9.( )Lynwood                 John Levon Jr.

10.(X)Markham     James Bibbs, Everett Wilkins

11.( )Midlothian             Edward Henschel

11.( )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, David Goodwine

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

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

18.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

19.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson

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

21.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford

22.( )Thornton                Rob Claus

23.(X)Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny

24.( )Will County              Harold Damron

25.(X)Red Cross               Sal Rinella (for Yvette)

26.( )State Region 4       Ron Carlson

 

GUEST:   
Opening Pledge & Prayer         James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

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

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Facemask request to be in by May 15^th from Regional Institute for Community Policing.

 

Federal Agents are in the area and they have breached security at one fire department already.  Be aware and tighten security in all Municipal buildings.  Everyone needs to be challenged and they should have credentials to allow him or her in your buildings.

 

If you have handicapped people in your community National Organization for Disabilities has some publications you may want.  One is a guide for people with disabilities.  Go to their web site www.nod.org or call 202/293-5900 or FEMA 800-621-3362

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking account has $418.54, the money market has $3,708.37, the CD has $2892.93, and the total of all accounts equals $7,019.84.

Check 1024 paid to John Dobner for ID machine $1,922.34, SMART program development $300.00, and Domain direct $79.99= $2,302.33.

Deposit $100 check from Orland Hills & transferred $300.00 to checking from money market.

Motion by Jim Dzurny 2^nd by Mike Pope to accept treasurers’ report.

Dues have not been received from Dolton, Lynwood, and Markham.  Will send a second invoice to the 3 town’s delinquent.

 

TRAINING:

Inquiry about Traffic control class.  John Ranieri is going to try and schedule one.

 

GSAR class will be in Steger estates Sat 5/31 08:00-21:00 6/1 09:00-13:00 there is no charge for this course.  Contact Steger estates FD for reservations, 30 have signed up so far.

 

Jim Dzurny explained the training guidelines that are used in Tinley Park to train their members.  If you as a SMART member want to know what the qualifications are of people responding to a mutual aid call we need training guidelines too.  Bring your ideas to the July meeting in Steger and we will discuss.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Thursday at 1:30 PM to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.  NEXTELS response was 4 hours late on the page.  NEXTEL had major troubles.  You may have trouble with your voice mail.  So make a call to your phone to check it out.  If you have trouble call NEXTEL repair number at 800-639-6111.

 

Interoperability channels sheet handed out by Bob Small.  If you are going to buy radios make sure they have splits.  Any questions talk to Bob Small.

 

EQUIPMENT:

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

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Need to know who is going to show up for TOPOFF2.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No Report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

No Report

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

New York guy was really good but that is all.  Rest of conference was poor.  A lot of people left the conference early.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

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

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

Yvette is tied up in TOPOFF2 and wanted to know how far south the exercise is extended to.  Our guess is that 95^th street is as far south as it is going.

 

Members Status:

 

 

OLD BUSINESS:

South Holland can’t host the June meeting.  Because of numerous events going on in June we have Cancel the June monthly meeting.

 

Where are the disks for the directors to use for paging?  The committee has set up quadrants to have directors or someone to page.  No one has volunteered to be coordinator for the Southeast quadrant yet.  All quadrants need to be filled to be able to make the plan function.

Mike Pope volunteered to be southeast coordinator.  John Dobner volunteered to help the quadrant coordinators get up to speed on paging.

We do need to streamline the paging ability.  The page to Blue Island was confusing to some.

 

We are unable to vote on the by-laws amendment because we lack a quorum.  Jim Dean made motion to table by-laws amendment 2^nd by John Thomas.

 

John Dobner will contact the communities to verify the information that was provided is accurate before printing ID card.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Mark Bettenhausen is now the federal Homeland security person.

 

Some Fire Officials went to DC to lobby for money to come to Illinois.  It seems to have worked.

 

John Dobner said this is his last meeting as Richton Park representative.  Richton Park gave him no budget to run the ESDA.  John said he would take the summer off and come back in September.  John thanked Dean Bloom for all his help in the past years with Richton Park ESDA.  Dean was a big asset to the Richton Park organization.

 

Sandy Patlak thanked John for his service to the SMART organization very well.  We all agree that John will be missed because of all the things he has done for SMART.  (Hopefully John will return after a short rest.)

 

Country Club Hills ESDA has won the Governors hometown award.  They will be going to a presentation in Springfield June 25^th.  Way to go Country Club Hills.

 

Anyone having any info on Grants from FEMA please give Jim Dzurny a call he is looking for information.

 

Tinley Park has been excepted as a train the trainer for CERT (about 20 Hrs).  He would like to have the support of all the SMART communities.

If you attend the course you will need to establish a citizen corps within 60 days.

 

South Holland Memorial Day parade is May 26^th.  They will need some assistance.

 

Art Johnson handed out Sauk Village’s Fire bash information.  If anyone can help out at this event let Art know.

 

ADJOURNED at 21:40 May 8, 2003.  Motion by Sandy Patlak 2^nd by John Thomas.

 

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:

 

May       8         Blue Island

June      12        South Holland  Canceled

July      10        Steger

August     14        Markham

September     11        Dolton

October     9         New Lenox

November     13        Sauk Village

December     11        NO MEETING