SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting November 11, 2004 in Sauk Village started at 19:30.

 

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.( )Blue Island             Charles Truschka, John Caminmer

2.(X)Calumet City            James Meincke

3.( )Chicago Heights         David Troiani

4.(X)Cook County             Bill Dorgan, Kevin Joyce

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

6.( )Crestwood               Bob Windberg

7.(X)Crete                   Ruth Reed, Art Bedman

8.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak

9.(X)Homer Glen              John Robinson

10.(X)Hometown               James Dean, Joe Kouba

11.(X)Lynwood                Frank Wauszewski

12.(X)Markham                James Bibbs, Everett Wilkins,

                             Charles Wilson

13.(X)Midlothian             Michael Tryon

14.(X)Mokena                 Greg McElyea

15.( )New Lenox              William Potocki

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

                             Bob Russell

17.( )Orland Hills          

18.(X)Peotone                Joel Werner, David Goodwine

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

20.( )Riverdale             

21.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson, Kenneth Cook,

                             Amon Darnall, Robert Uhruck

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

23.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford, Jeff Morden,

                             Adam J. Trent

24.(X)Thornton               John Levon Jr.

25.( )Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny, Steve Vick

26.(X)Will County            Harold Damron

27.( )Red Cross              Yvette Alexander

28.( )State Region 4         Ron Carlson

29.( )Cook County IDPH       Marissa Sanders, Lisa Mallory-Nance

 

GUEST:    From Plainfield EMA Dennis Hamron Capt., Chris Hinchliffe Lt.
Opening Prayer & Pledge      Pledge led by James Bibbs.

 

MINUTES:

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

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Nothing

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The October 30, 2004 balance in the checking account is $1,818.23, the money market has $5,677.57 the CD has $2954.20, the total of all accounts equals $10,450.00.

October activity was; deposit in checking account for $300 and $4.66 interest earned on Money Market.

Motion by Jeff Schoeling 2^nd by James Bibbs to accept treasurers’ report.

Communities that have paid are; Blue Island, Cook County, CC Hills, Hometown, Lynwood, Mokena, Oak Forest, Palos Park, Peotone, Rich Township, Riverdale, Sauk Village, South Holland, Steger, Thornton, Tinley Park, and Will County.  (16 of 23)

 

TRAINING:

GSAR class in Steger was great.  Suggestion was made that SMART have our own Search & Rescue team.  It should comprise about 12 Committee members and Roger appointed Dave Goodwine Joel Werner (Peotone), Adam Trent & Jeff Morden (Steger).  Anyone else interested can join even if you had the training a while ago.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

A SMART page was sent Monday 11/8 about 13:35, and Wednesday 11/10 about 17:55 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTEL phones.

 

Bob Small talked about radios and antennas.  He also gave out 2 handouts.

 

There is a deal on RELM radios that are 99 channels and cost about $275 each, software is about $20.

 

EQUIPMENT:

Make sure Jeff has your Equipment updates.

No Report

 

Member/Membership Status:

Riverdale wants to form an ESDA and John Thomas has been approached to help them get started.

 

Plainfield was given a membership application and they are interested.

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Cook County (Bill Dorgan) sent out faxes asking about NIMS (National Incident Management System).  All communities need to be on board by November 1, 2005.  You won’t be able to receive any Federal funding if you don’t comply.  To learn more about NIMS go to www.FEMA.gov/nims web site.

 

Incident Command courses had great response.  More are being planned.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No Report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

At the 9-1-1 conference it was stated that AED trained personnel are required at any physical fitness establishment.  This goes into affect 1/5/05 for schools, physical fitness facilities i.e. Curves, Bally’s, Park Districts, etc.

 

Illinois Department of Public Health is enforcing the requirement that all Emergency Medical Dispatchers need to be EMD trained.

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

April 14^th –16th in East Peoria.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

2005 conference is September 6^th, 7^th, & 8^th in Springfield at the Crown Plaza.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

Not present

 

CCDPH:

Not present

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Christmas party is Thursday December 9^th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM dinner is at 7:30.  There will be a cash bar available and there is NO SMOKING in the building.  The restaurant is Bartolinis located at 14420 S. Pulaski just north of the drivers license facility.  Everyone needs to let Mike Tryon know they are coming.  There will be no more then 3 people per community.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

There was none?

 

ADJOURNED at 20:20 November 11, 2004.  Motion by all 2^nd by all.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)473-2609

jpilch@ameritech.net

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2005 Meeting dates & host

 

January   13   Tinley Park

February  10   Markham

March     10   Peotone

April     14   Oak Forest

May       12   Mokena

June      9   South Holland

July      14   Steger

August    11   Crete

September 15   Dolton  (IEMA is 9/6-8)

October   13   Thornton

November  11   Sauk Village

 

December  8   Christmas Break