Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team
Meeting April 12, 2001 in Oak Forest started at 19:30.
COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT:
COORDINATOR/MEMBER
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) 4th Director John Thomas (South Holland)
Communities
1. (X) *Blue Island Stephen White, Bill Claessens,
John O’Toole
2. ( ) Calumet City Tom Ciciora
3. (X) *Cook County Kevin Philips, John Pluta
4. (X) *Crestwood Bob Windberg, Butch Stoffregen
5. (X) *Dolton Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt
Bob Claessens
6. (X) *Hometown Jim Dean
7. ( ) *Lynwood John Levon Jr
8. (X) *Markham James Bibb, Charles Wilson,
Everett Williams
9. (X) *Mokena Bill Potocki, Edmund RooneyIII
10. ( ) New Lenox Michael Potocki
11. (X) *Oak Forest Bob Small, Joe Pilch
12. ( ) Orland Hills Jack Leddin
13. (X) *Richton Park John Dobner
14. (X) *Rich Township John Ranieri, Jeff Schoeling
15. (X) *Riverdale Ed Podgers
16. (X) *Sauk Village Art Johnson
17. (X) *South Holland John J. Thomas
18. (X) *Steger Roger Mumford, Rich Heining
19. (X) *Thornton Tim Karwatka, Paul Adams
20. (X) *Tinley Park Jim Dzurny, Ken Buck
21. ( ) *Will County Harold Damron
22. (X) Red Cross James Fumbanks, Yvette Alexander
23. (X) State Region 4 Ron Carlson
(X) = Present at meeting.
GUEST:
MINUTES:
Motion to approve March meeting minutes by Jim Dzurny 2nd by John Ranieri.
CORRESPONDENCE:
No Report
TREASURER REPORT:
SMART account at First United Bank.
The checking has $2,512.28 savings has $1593.44, and the money market 1/4ly statement has $2754.41 totals $6860.13. Motion by Jim Dzurny 2nd by James Bibbs to accept treasurers’ report.
Paid: Blue Island, Cook County, Crestwood, Dolton, Hometown, Lynwood, Markham, Mokena, Oak Forest, Rich Township, Richton Park, Riverdale, Sauk Village, South Holland, Steger, Thornton, Tinley Park and Will County.
TRAINING:
April 28th 8:00 AM = ICS training for ESDA’s training sponsored by Illinois EMA, has 50 people signed-up as of today.
June 18th 7:30 PM = Secretary of State will be doing ID training at Oak Forest City Hall. This will help you identify bad drivers licenses.
May 5 9:00 AM – Noon = Romeoville ESDA, 27 Montrose Drive, traffic control training by Illinois State Police. Call 815 740 8351 Harold Damron for reservations.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Bob Small did a SMART page at 11:23.
Weather Warning channel 42.5 Jim Dean wants list of how many people are trying to receive bulletins on this channel, in your community. State is working on making it work again.
NEXTEL for government use, would it be possible to get us on the NEXTEL system. Only 2 communities have NEXTEL now.
EQUIPMENT:
Be sure to give all equipment updates to John Dobner including telephone number and pager changes. If department heads change John also needs to know that.
SMARTEMA.org will be the new URL to
reach the SMART web page.
STATE REGION 4:
Incident Command System for ESDA’s will be held April 28th, at the Palos Hills Parks & Recreation Center 8455 103rd St. in Palos Park. Class will run from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, 50 people sign-up so far.
Threat assessment is a class going to be given soon.
Conference scheduled for September 4 & 5.
COOK COUNTY: Cook County web www.cookcountysheriff.org
Any articles you want put on the page give to John Pluta, and he’ll get them posted.
May 24th at 7:00 PM = Cook County hosting the Emergency Operations Plan meeting. If your community doesn’t have a PLAN to put in place the Community has a big liability over their heads.
Planning for a Sustainable future publication Jim Dean has. Jim Dean also handed a document out on Planning.
April 14th Saturday = Traffic stop on west side of Cook County.
Roger praised the Cook County bomb squad for the outstanding job they did at a school in his town.
WILL COUNTY:
No Report
Legislative Liaison:
HB161 = Flashing light on responder to emergency call firefighter can have alternating headlights, and flashing blue lights. PASSED HOUSE
HB2221 = Provides for Fire and Police volunteers to receive up to 14 days of time off from work attend training.
SB787 = Disaster service volunteers. PASSED HOUSE.
SB958 = 7/1/01 Railroad crossing signals.
SB860 = EMA act amendments to act as advising committee, political sub (read it yourself) covers workmen’s compensation. Right to know planning. PASSED HOUSE
IESMA:
Bloomington conference April 20, & 21.
Red Cross:
Completed their response plan adding terrorism, and other stuff.
Next meeting Jim Fumbanks will provide us with their training information.
OLD BUSINESS:
Accountability tags when we are out on mutual aid. Tells what vehicle and who is with the vehicle. One ESDA bought this in 1995 and their cost was between $200-$500. Small has an internet site contact. Need committee to look into costs etc. Jim Dean, Jeff Schoeling, and Bob Small will handle this task.
Tim Karwatka received a price on SMART rocker, 500 at $.96 each equals $480. Motion to order patches by John Ranieri and 2nd by Bill Potocki.
Stationary with SMART logo in red ink and other writing in blue ink, cost is $62.00 for 500 sheets. SMART envelopes are $42.00 for 500. Motion to order stationary and envelopes not to exceed $150.00 by Jim Dzurny 2nd by Art Johnson.
So far the ESDA days tentative plan is to have parade and BBQ. Still planning, once again there is an insurance issue that comes up when we have these non-emergency events.
NEW BUSINESS:
Box alarm assignment codes added one for schools. Since we have multiple pager services now is it still feasible to use the numeric pager codes? Do we need the incident command sheets. We are all on Alpha Numeric pagers now is it possible to have someone always at a computer able to page SMART.
July 22 6:30 AM = Tinley Park may need assistance.
IPASS transponders contact Tollway Authority cost is minimal and you pay for what tolls you pass through.
SMART 20 year banquet is in planning stages for 2002.
ADJOURNED at 21:15 April 12, 2001. Motion by Butch Stoffregen 2nd by all.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joe Pilch
SMART Secretary
(708)687-8383
Schedule for 2001 meetings, all Meetings start at 7:30 PM.
May 10 Blue Island
June 14 South Holland
July 12 Steger
August 9 Crestwood
September 13 Dolton
October 11 Calumet City
November 8 Sauk Village
December 13 NO MEETING
If you are unable to hold meeting please contact one of the SMART officers. They can then find an alternate location.
For your information, here is a list of SMART officers and appointees.
OFFICERS Date Elected
President Roger Mumford 7/13/2000
Vice President Bob Small 11/11/1999
Secretary/Treasurer Joe Pilch 7/13/2000
1st Director Art Johnson 7/13/2000
2nd Director Jim Dean 7/13/2000
3rd Director John Ranieri 11/11/1999
4th Director John Thomas 1/11/2001
Appointments Chairman Date Appointed
Special Function Coordinator Dean Bloom 7/12/90
Legislative Liaison Jim Dean 7/12/90
New Member Board Bob Small 7/12/90
Communication Officer Bob Small 7/12/90
Communication Repeater Committee John Dobner 7/12/90
Jim Dawson 7/12/90
Bob Small 7/12/90
Rick Franke 7/12/90
Equipment Officer John Dobner 7/12/90
Equipment Inspector Jeff Schoeling 7/13/95
Equipment Committee
Sgt-at-Arms Jeff Schoeling 12/9/99
Assistant Director (Cook County) Kevin Philipps 1/96
Assistant Director (Will County) Harold Damron 1/14/93
Village Officials Sandy Patlak 10/9/97
WillCo Fire Chiefs Liaison Art Johnson 10/91
Will County Liaison Harold Damron 2/13/92
Cook County Liaison Kevin Philipps 1/11/96