SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting April 8, 2004 in Oak Forest started at 19:35.

 

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)

( )  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.( )Blue Island              Charles Truschka, John Caminmer

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

3.( )Chicago Heights        David Troiani

4.(X)Cook County              Bill Dorgan

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

6.(X)Crestwood                    Bob Windberg

7.( )Crete                   Martin Piepenbrink

8.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt,

                              Bob Claessens

9.(X)Hometown                James Dean, Joe Kouba

10.(X)Lynwood                Jeff Morden

11.(X)Markham     James Bibbs, Charles Wilson

12.(X)Midlothian             Michael Tryon, Christopher Tryon

                              Craig Busking

13.( )Mokena          Greg McElyea

14.(X)New Lenox          William Potocki

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

16.( )Orland Hills               Jack Leddin

17.(X)Peotone                Joel Werner

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

                              Bob Russell

19.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

20.( )Sauk Village             Art Johnson, Kenneth Cook

21.(X)South Holland             John Thomas, Mary Read

22.( )Steger                  Roger Mumford

23.( )Thornton                John Levon Jr.

24.(X)Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny

25.(X)Will County            Harold Damron

26.(X)Red Cross               Yvette Alexander

27.( )State Region 4       Ron Carlson

 

GUEST: John Robinson Homer Glen EMA Coordinator, Bob Goldhammer regional rep for CAN
Opening Prayer & Pledge         by James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by Jeff Schoeling, 2^nd by John Thomas.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Thanks to those that assisted at the Riverdale police officers funeral.

 

James Bibbs had very nice sympathy cards for SMART to mail out when needed.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The March 31, 2004 balance in the checking account is $971.14, the money market has $4,748.13 the CD has $2939.16, the total of all accounts equals $8,658.43.

Motion by James Dean 2^nd by John Thomas to accept treasurers’ report.

 

TRAINING:

Jim Dzurny has received training agreements back from the following communities; Chicago Heights, South Holland, Tinley Park, Steger, Rich Township, Thornton, Midlothian, Hometown, and Peotone.

 

Homeland Security guide was handed out by Jim Dzurny.

 

CERT class dates for May will be sent to Coordinators.

 

Midwest emergency preparedness conference is being held in Rockford.  The information was mailed to coordinators.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Thursday at 14:45 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.

 

West Com has a frequency change it is 154.355.

 

EQUIPMENT:

No Report

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Bill Durgan said there is nothing new to report this month.

 

If you plan on attending the Shelter workshop by Red Cross make sure you have sent your RSVP.

 

There still hasn’t been a response on using the County frequencies.

 

Cook County Public Health sent out info fax to communities.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Raising of the death benefit for Law enforcement during line of service. Has gone away.  State declared disaster is covered.

 

Public partners answers questions online at www.pocketpartner.com.

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

Conference will be April 14^th –16th in East Peoria.  Filling up all ready and no information out yet.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

This years conference is September 7^th, 8^th, & 9^th 2004 in Springfield at the Crown Plaza.  Make reservations online early.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

Moving next week to new building.  Close to Stroger & VA Hospital.

 

Member/Membership Status:

Manhattan still interested in joining SMART organization.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Does each town need to supply community maps or just staging areas?  It was agreed to make sure the staging areas are up to date.

 

SMART updates need to be to Joe Pilch, Bob Small or one of the officers with in the next month or 2.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Bob Goldhammer from Community Alert Network gave presentation on how to alert people of problems in the town (some call it reverse 9-1-1).  CAN would maintain phone number database.  CAN will do the calls to the numbers in the area you want.  Has reports that show call was made to Telephone Number.  These reports can be  via faxed or emailed.  Cost based on populations $.21 per line. $7500 for Oak Forest (28,000) $5,000 renewal.  You get 5 copies of the mapping program.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:35 April 8, 2004.  Motion by Chair 2^nd by lots of people.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)473-2609

jpilch@ameritech.net

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2004 Meetings dates & host:

 

April     8         Oak Forest

May       13        Dolton

June      10        South Holland

July      8         Steger

August     12        Midlothian

September     16        New Lenox

October     21        Thornton

November     11        Sauk Village

December     9         Holiday Break