SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting January 8, 2004 in Lynwood 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)

( )  2nd Director            James Dean    (Hometown)

( )  3rd Director            John Ranieri  (Rich Township)

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

 

Communities                  SMART Coordinator/Representative

1.(X)Blue Island             Bill Claessens

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.( )Crestwood               Bob Winberg

7.(X)Crete                   Martin Piepenbrink, Marty Braccio

8.(X)Dolton                  Bob Claussens

9.(X)Hometown                Joe Kouba

10.(X)Lynwood                Jeff Morden, Russ Pearson,

                             Frank Waliszewski, Mike Claywell,

                             Marge Claywell, Mike Zientara

11.(X)Markham                James Bibbs

12.( )Midlothian              Michael Tryon

13.(X)Mokena                 Greg McElyea

14.( )New Lenox              William Potocki, Mike Potocki

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

16.( )Orland Hills           Jack Leddin

17.(X)Peotone                Joel Werner, Donna Werner

18.(X)Rich Township          Jeff Schoeling, Bob Russell

19.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

20.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson

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

22.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford

23.(X)Thornton               John Levon Jr.

24.(X)Tinley Park            Steve Vick

25.( )Will County            Harold Damron

26.(X)Red Cross              Yvette Alexander

27.( )State Region 4         Ron Carlson

 

GUEST:
Opening Pledge & Prayer      by James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by James Dean, 2^nd by John Thomas.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

None

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The November balance in the checking account is $1466.43, the money market has $4,632.40 (there was a $400.00 deposit and earned $3.49 interest) the CD has $2923.84, the total of all accounts equals $9,022.67.

The December balance in the checking account is $1,037.13 (Check for $429.30), the money market has $4,636.46 (earned $4.06 interest), the CD is $2,931.49 (earned $7.65 interest) the total for all accounts equals $8,605.08

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

 

TRAINING:

Tinley Park has scheduled CERT training there are 2 sessions of 6 nights.  Some dates may have to be changed because of conflicts with SMART meeting.

 

Tinley Park has a weather spotters class scheduled for Tuesday January 20^th 7-9 PM.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Monday afternoon & Thursday at 10:40 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.

 

Cook County antenna at Central & 159 will be used as “hot spot”.  The “hot spot” is encrypted and has about a mile and half range.  Communities will be charged for T-1 line but not equipment.  You need to have the computers with accessories to get your jurisdiction connected to the “hot spot”.

 

EQUIPMENT:

No Report

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Everyone should have received updated resource guides.  Cook County has latest version of operation plan on disk let Bill know if you want a disk to help you write your plan.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Nothing

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

Conference will be April 14th in East Peoria.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Next years conference is September 7^th, 8^th, & 9^th 2004 in Springfield at the Crown Plaza.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

Reminder Buffalo Grove has shelter operations class on January 20^th.

 

Building of new Red Cross headquarters is going well it is located by Strogher Hospital.

 

Red Cross has communication vehicle available it will be at shelter operation training class on January 20^th.

 

Member/Membership Status:

Nothing to report on.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Tinley Park needs to change the SMART meeting date.  Since they have CERT training scheduled on the same date.

 

Are the directors going to have access to the paging program?  The communications committee needs to go over this again and come up with a decision.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Fire Department is having a having a statewide MABAS seminar February 2-4 in Springfield.  Bob Small is attending and may bring us information back.

 

Fire Department Chiefs are happy that ESDA is a resource for them.  If you get requested to respond to a fire call then do what you can for them.  It only helps out our image.

 

Will county will have a trailer with vtach radio operation.

 

Jeff Morden introduced Bob Ossler, who is a member of the Chicago Fire Department and pastor of the Sauk Village Church.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:00 January 8, 2003.  Motion by Bill Claesshen 2^nd by all.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

jpilch@ameritech.net

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2004 Meetings dates & host:

 

January    8        Lynwood

February  12        Tinley Park

March     11        Peotone

April     8        Oak Forest

May       13        Dolton

June      10        South Holland

July       8       Steger

August    12        Midlothian *See Note below

September 16        New Lenox

October   21        Thornton

November  11        Sauk Village

December  9        Holiday Break

 

*Community room 14801 S. Pulaski Rd behind the Police station. Parking in rear of building and V.F.W lot additional Parking in Metra lot next to Fire station.