Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team
Meeting March 8, 2001 in Markham Court House started at 19:35.
COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT:
COORDINATOR/MEMBER
Officers
( ) 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)
( ) 4th Director John Thomas (South Holland)
Communities
(X) *Blue Island Stephen White, Bill Claessens,
John Caminter
(X) Calumet City Tom Ciciora
(X) *Cook County John Pluta
(X) *Crestwood Bob Windberg, Butch Stoffregen
(X) *Dolton Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt
(X) *Hometown Jim Dean, Jeff McKnight
(X) *Lynwood John Levon Jr
(X) *Markham James Bibb, Charles Wilson
(X) *Mokena Greg McElyea, Phil Durling
( ) New Lenox Mike Potocki
(X) *Oak Forest Bob Small, Joe Pilch
(X) Orland Hills Jack Leddin
(X) *Richton Park John Dobner
(X) *Rich Township John Ranieri, Jeff Schoeling,
Bob Russell
(X) *Riverdale Ed Podgers
(X) *Sauk Village Art Johnson
(X) *South Holland Ralph Turner
( ) *Steger Roger Mumford
(X) *Thornton Tim Karwatka, Paul Adams,
Michael Pozen
(X) *Tinley Park Jim Dzurny, Ken Buck
( ) *Will County Harold Damron
(X) Red Cross Jim Fumbanks, Yvette Alexander
(X) State Region 4 Ron Carlson
(X) = Present at meeting.
GUEST:
Alfred Scott Robbins Fire Dept.
MINUTES:
Motion to approve February meeting minutes by Jeff Schoeling 2nd by Ralph Turner.
CORRESPONDENCE:
Chicago Ridge EMA sent out letter to some communities about a new organization called ALERTS, meeting to e held in Hillside.
TREASURER REPORT:
Report will be give at the April meeting.
SMART account at First United Bank.
The checking has $ savings has $, and the money market 1/4ly statement has $ totals $. Motion by 2nd by 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:
Jim Dean Hometown ESDA hosted a Severe Weather presentation March 6th at Hammond Hall 4343 Southwest Hwy 7:00 PM. Went very well 23 people attended.
April 12, Calumet City will have a Severe Weather presentation at their Library located at 660 Manistee 7:00 PM.
Will County to host Traffic class at Romeoville EOC in May.
Rich Township is planning a traffic class to be held soon.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Bob Small did a SMART page at 13:09.
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:
Ron handed out surplus applications. If you want to be able to buy surplus Government property you need to sign-up.
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, need 30 people to conduct class.
Conference scheduled for September.
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.
Cook County workshop for writing an Emergency Operations plan scheduled for 3/15. No real response has been received by Cook County, only 1 town has responded. Because of lack of interest move meeting to April. Kevin will talk with Tinley Park to schedule a new date.
Those Communities operating without an Emergency Operations Plan need to realize the liability their Community is under by not having a Plan.
3/16 there will be a Traffic stop in Matteson conducted by Cook County Sheriff.
WILL COUNTY:
No Report
Legislative Liaison:
There are some new emergency communication rules.
HB161 Flashing light on responder to emergency call firefighter can have alternating headlights, and flashing blue lights.
HB2221 Provides for leave from work to train for volunteer fire and police.
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.
IL EPA to have household waste disposal sites available; 6/2 Devry, July 16 Homewood Flossmoor High School 8-3 PM.
IESMA:
Bloomington conference
Red Cross:
No Report
OLD BUSINESS:
Palos Hills requested search for the baby in landfill, but the call back number given no one answered. If you call for assistance and leave a call back number make sure you have someone there to answer the phone.
Tim has price on SMART rocker, & letterhead and gave the information to Roger Mumford, SMART President.
So far the ESDA days tentative plan is to have parade and BBQ.
NEW BUSINESS:
Question was asked, "Does anyone have people that are in 2 ESDA’s?" Most communities have a local policy that governs dual membership. This was discussed at length. You need to make a decision on what your own local policy should be.
Incident Command System Small handed out the Draft that was handed out a couple years ago, to each community. Need to discuss this at our April meeting. ICS for GSR may be different then some other calls.
ADJOURNED at 20:36 March 8, 2001. Motion by Sandy Patlak 2nd by all the John’s.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joe Pilch
SMART Secretary
(708)687-8383
Schedule for 2001 meetings; All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.
March 8 Cook County (Markham)
April 12 Oak Forest
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.
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