Meeting August 9, 2001 in Crestwood started at 19:40.

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) 4^th Director John Thomas (South Holland)

1.(X)Blue Island Bill Claessens, John O’Toole

2.( )Calumet City Thomas Ciciora Sr.

3.( )Cook County Kevin Philipps, John Pluta

4.(X)Crestwood Bob Windberg, Butch Stoffregen

5.( )Dolton Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt

6.(X)Hometown James Dean

7.(X)Lynwood John A. Levon Jr.

8.(X)Markham Charles Wilson, Everett Wilkins

9.(X)Mokena Bill Potocki

10.( )New Lenox Michael Potocki

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

12.( )Orland Hills Jack Leddin

13.(X)Richton Park John Dobner, Dean Bloom

14.(X)Rich Township John Ranieri, Bob Russell

15.(X)Riverdale Steve White

16.(X)Sauk Village Art Johnson

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

18.(X)Steger Roger Mumford

19.(X)Thornton Rob Claus

20.(X)Tinley Park Ken Buck

21.(X)Will County Harold Damron

22.(X)Red Cross Debra Daun

23.( )Region 4 Ron Carlson

(X) = Present at meeting.

Mike Pope Deputy Fire Chief Chicago Hgts.

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

None

The checking has $1,987.07, the money market has $1,608.76, the CD has $2,786.48, equals $6,382.31. Motion by John Thomas 2^nd by John Levon to accept treasurers’ report.

Rich Township planning traffic class for September.

COMMUNICATIONS:

SMART page on Tuesday to change meeting to Crestwood. Another page sent today at 16:00 or so.

NEXTEL is adding direct connect to their service later.

EMAIL will be used to send out some SMART info that is pertinent to the group. John Dobner has been confirming email addresses. If you have email let John Dobner know so you can get updated EMA information quick. His address is john@johndobner.com

If you want weather on your pager you can go to myweather.com. You can set up an account to page you with weather information.

Keep John updated on changes.

Updates will be made available every 6 months.

No Report

Visit Cook County at www.cookcountysheriff.org take a look.

County working on the flooding problems in Chicago.

No Report

Not in session.

Conference Sept 4 - 6 Springfield Crowne Plaza Hotel.

No report

FEMA web site, US fire admin, Training or Job aid to get the CD on Columbine.

Earlier notice on events so towns have time to plan. John Dobner will post them on the Web Page.

Why can’t we get our people to show up and help for Mutual Aid events? IEMA has volunteer resources training, example Care and Nurturing of volunteers.

Need EMAIL addresses for all members that have them either give to John Dobner or send email to John@johndobner.com.

Small can bring in FBI people to talk on domestic & other stuff FBI does.

Should we put on a SMART seminar? Let’s come up with some ideas.

We need more combined training in SMART group.

Dues notice to be sent soon.

ADJOURNED at 20:35 August 9, 2001.

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

Aug 18^th Blue Island Children's Triathlon 8-11:00 AM. Meet at Memorial park at 7:15 AM for staging. Need 35 people and 7-10 vehicles.

Aug 18 South Holland’s Heritage Fest John Thomas asking for assistance.

Aug 18 9:30 am Parade in Lynwood traffic control.

August 23-26 Sauk Village annual Fire bash, help needed.

August 25^th Parade in Steger 12:30 – 16:00. Marked vehicles and personnel needed.

September 2^nd Labor day parade in Oak Forest.

Sept 4 - 6 Conference in Springfield at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Sept 15 8:45 at EOC 75^th Anniversary parade in Richton Park.

Sept 15th Crestwood ESDA Open house.

Oct 6^th Saturday October Fest parade Tinley Park.

September 13 Dolton

October 11 Calumet City

November 8 Sauk Village

December 13 NO MEETING SCHEDULE

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