SMART

 

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting March 14, 2002 in Tinley Park started at 19:30.

 

COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT:

                                   COORDINATOR/MEMBER

Officers

(X)     President                    Roger Mumford     (Steger)

( )  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

1.(X)Blue Island              Bill Claessens

2.(X)Calumet City            James Meincke

3.(X)Chicago heights        Michael Pope, Will Chaplean

4.(X)Cook County              Kevin Philipps, John Pluta

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

6.(X)Crestwood                    Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt

8.(X)Hometown                James Dean

9.(X)Lynwood                 Jefferey Morden

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

                              Everett Wilkins

11.(X)Mokena          Greg McElyer, Bill Potocki

12.(X)New Lenox          Michael Potocki

13.(X)Oak Forest              Joe Pilch

14.( )Orland Hills               Jack Leddin

15.(X)Peotone                Donna Werner, Butch Stoffregen

16.(X)Richton Park           Dean Bloom

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

18.(X)Riverdale              Ed Podgers, Jason Mourer

19.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson

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

                              Matt Pozen

21.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford

22.(X)Thornton                    Rob Claus

23.(X)Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny, Ken Buck, John Kelley

24.(X)Will County            Harold Damron

25.( )Red Cross               Yvette Alexander

26.(X)Region 4                    Ron Carlson

 

(X) = Present at meeting.

 

GUEST:

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by John Ranieri, 2^{nd by} Sandy Patlak.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Dupage County has spots still open for Advance Weather Spotters class.  When signing up on Saturday you may not get a lunch included, because you were to late for the lunch count.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking has $3,147.29, the money market has $1,629.17, the CD has $2,851.15, equals $7,627.61.  Motion by Bloom 2^nd by Jim Dean to accept treasurers’ report.

Paid Communities: (19) Blue Island, Chicago Heights, Cook County, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Hometown, Lynwood, Mokena, New Lenox, Oak Forest, Peotone, Rich Township, Richton Park, Riverdale, Sauk Village, South Holland, Thornton, Tinley Park, & Will County.

Crestwood paid?

 

TRAINING:

- April 3 Wednesday 19:00 Traffic class (2-3 Hrs) at Romeoville EMA fax request to Will County, fax is 815-723-8895.

 

- Police etiquette brochure hand-out from South Holland.

 

Cook County is doing Shelter Management training.  It is being presented in the towns that have rivers first.  These training sessions are starting on the North end of Cook County and heading south.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

Joe Pilch set off a SMART page Thursday afternoon at 13:30 to Alpha numeric and Nextel’s.

 

EQUIPMENT:

Keep John updated on changes.  John will update the SMART book again after April 1^st if changes get to him.

 

STATE REGION 4:

Illinois professional management thing.

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Weather spotters classes are set-up attend one of your choice.

 

Advance SAR (Search And Rescue) in Mount Prospect May 4, & 5.

 

Resource Guide was handed to Mayors that showed at conference last week.  Public Works and other departments books will be mailed to the communities.

 

Thanks to Tinley Park ESDA for assisting Cook County Sheriff at the accident on Central and 183^rd Street.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

Hosted GSAR and all went well.

 

Weather spotters courses completed.

 

3/19 New Coordinators workshop.

 

4/27 & 28 SAR management course.

 

3/26 & 27 Emergency Planning course.

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Legislation passed that if you are working up to 20 days as a Red Cross volunteer your company has to give you the time off.

 

HB 3033 death benefit increased to $118,000 then increases by 3% or cost of living 2003.

 

Legislation specifically wrote ESDA out of receiving Workmen compensation.

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Management Association):

Conference is April 18, 19, & 20 in Springfield.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Conference in September

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No report

 

Accountability Tag COMMITTEE:

Jim Dean ordered Accountability tags for Hometown.  There is a price increase.  Jim used the equipment list option to put on his vehicle.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Want everyone’s email address so information notices and minutes can be sent via email.

 

ESDA standards, Cook has made the rounds around the county.

1. Frequencies will be allocated to Cook County EMA.  Also there is a patch to work your local frequency with 800mghz trunking.

2. Incident command training will be made available to help in the standards.

3. Meetings, training, etc. will be done to make sure you know what you will get when you call for equipment.

 

If you want to join the LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) Kevin has forms.

 

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Lansing Mayor was talking with by Sandy Patlak about ESDA.  There seems to be interest by the Mayor to start an ESDA.

 

Dolton didn’t get a call about the house that blew up in his town.  Riverdale, South Holland, and Calumet City assisted at the house.  SMART wasn’t called for mutual aid assistance.  Sandy will be talking with his 9-1-1 center in the morning in regards to why Dolton ESDA wasn’t called.  (This is a local jurisdictional thing that needs to be corrected in house.)

 

Chicago Heights inquired about the Radiological Monitoring gear replacement from Nuclear Regulatory commission.  It seems since Nuclear Regulatory has taken over and the replacements are taking a little longer.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:32 March 14, 2002.  Motion by Sandy Patlak 2^nd by Dean Bloom.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

 

All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2002 Meetings host:

January 10   Rich Township

February 14     Chicago Heights

March 14       Tinley Park

April 11       Oak Forest

May 9          Blue Island

June 13        South Holland

July 11        Steger

August 8       Crestwood

September 12     Dolton

October 10     (Riverdale can’t host.)

November 14   Sauk Village

December       NO MEETING