SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

www.smartema.org

 

Meeting May 13, 2004 in Dolton started at 19:35.

 

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)

( )  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              Charles Truschka

2.(X)Calumet City            James Meincke

3.( )Chicago Heights        David Troiani

4.(X)Cook County              Bill Dorgan

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

6.( )Crestwood                   Bob Windberg

7.(X)Crete                   Martin Piepenbrink, Ruth Reed

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

                              Bob Claessens

9.(X)Hometown                James Dean

10.(X)Lynwood                Jeff Morden

11.(X)Markham     James Bibbs, Charles Wilson,

                             Everett Wilkins

12.( )Midlothian             Michael Tryon

13.( )Mokena          Greg McElyea

14.( )New Lenox          William Potocki

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

16.( )Orland Hills               Jack Leddin

17.(X)Peotone                Joel Werner, Donna Werner,

                              Joan Goodwine

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

19.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

20.( )Sauk Village             Art Johnson, Kenneth Cook

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

                              Ralph Turner

22.( )Steger                  Roger Mumford

23.(X)Thornton                    John Levon Jr.

24.(X)Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny, Ken Buck

25.( )Will County              Harold Damron

26.( )Red Cross               Yvette Alexander

27.( )State Region 4       Ron Carlson

 

GUEST:
Opening Prayer & Pledge         by James Bibbs

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by ------, 2^nd by ----.  I missed this part so if someone could tell me who did this?

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Tinley Park received a letter from Orland Park to assist at Orland Days.  Tinley won’t participate cause there isn’t a mutual aid agreement between the towns.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The April 30, 2004 balance in the checking account is $1071.14, the money market has $4,752.03 the CD has $2939.16, the total of all accounts equals $8,762.33.  Have 2 bills to pay Secretary of State (Not for Profit) $5.00, James bibs for cards $178.00.

Motion by Jim Dzurny 2^nd by John Ranieri 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, Peotone, and Dolton.

 

CERT class dates for June are Tuesday 1^st, Thursday 3^rd, Tuesday 8^th, Thursday 10^th, Tuesday 15^th, and Thursday 17^th.  Jim also handed out a list of dates to all in attendance.

 

James Dean has information on IDOT flagger training.  He would like to have a class in July or August.  We need a place to hold the training class.  This is a 3½-hour class and the cost is FREE.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Thursday at 17:05 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.

 

Bob Small would like to research the possibility of a SMART repeater.  (This would be a channel we would use in responding to a mutual aid request.)  The cost of researching the frequencies is $400.00.  If SMART can’t get the repeater there is no charge for the frequency research.  The cost of a repeater would be between $2,000.00 and $2,500.00.  The frequency range would be 150.5 – 158 on the narrow band radios.  Communication committee would meet and decide on the use and where the repeater will be housed.  (Who ever houses’ the repeater will need to maintain it too.)

Motion by Jeff Schoeling to spend up to $3,500 to have repeater research and purchase done 2^nd by James Dean.  2 opposed motion.

 

EQUIPMENT:

No Report

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Bill said there was nothing new to report this month.

Bill said, “If your plans aren’t completed. I hope your working on them.”  If you need assistance in writing your plan call Cook County and they will send you a disk to help you out or work with you.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Nothing

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

April conference.  Conference this past April was nice.  Unified command class was great.

There was a good attendance from the SMART organization.

Testing of the masks we are expecting to receive hasn’t been completed yet.  May 10 was the date you needed to respond by with additions to your original quantity requested.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

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

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No Report

Sandy would like to have a 1^st aid/CPR course for Dolton or the SMART organization.

 

Member/Membership Status:

Crete is asking for information need to get the SMART ID cards.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

None

 

NEW BUSINESS:

South Holland needs assistance on Memorial Day for their parade, starts at 9:00 AM.

 

Cook County Department of Public Health will be at South Suburban College 5/18 discussing their pharmaceutical distribution plan.  Also at Moraine Valley on 5/20

 

South Holland ESDA has been asked to respond to Phoenix calls.  South Holland fire department responds to fires there now so it is okay that the ESDA response with there fire department.

 

Crete will have the 900-radio call for mutual aid responses.

 

ADJOURNED at 8:30 PM May 13, 2004.  Motion by Jeff Schoeling to adjourn 2^nd by everyone.

 

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:

 

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         Christmas Break