SMART

 

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting May 9, 2002 in Blue Island started at 19:40.

 

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)  4^th Director             John Thomas   (South Holland)

Communities

1.(X)Blue Island             Bill Claessens

2.(X)Calumet City            Len Chiaro, James Meincke

3.(X)Chicago heights         Michael Pope

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

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

6.( )Crestwood               Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt

8.(X)Hometown                James Dean, Joe Kouba

9.( )Lynwood                 John Levon Jr.

10.(X)Markham                James Bibbs, Charles Wilson

11.(X)Mokena                 Greg McElyer

12.( )New Lenox              Michael Potocki

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

14.( )Orland Hills           Jack Leddin

15.(X)Peotone                Donna Werner, Butch Stoffregen

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

17.(X)Rich Township          John Ranieri, Jeff Shoeling,

                             Bob Russell

18.( )Riverdale              Ed Podgers, Jason Mourer

19.(X)Sauk Village           Art Johnson

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

21.(X)Steger                 Roger Mumford

22.(X)Thornton               Rob Claus

23.(X)Tinley Park            Jim Dzurny

24.( )Will County            Harold Damron

25.( )Red Cross              Yvette Alexander

26.( )State Region 4         Ron Carlson

 

(X) = Present at meeting.

 

GUEST:

 

MINUTES:

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes by Jeff Schoeling, 2^{nd by} John Thomas.

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

South Holland can’t host June 13.  Dolton will host June meeting and South Holland will host September.

 

Illinois Fire Service has 2 day Homeland security meeting for input in Springfield.  Check Fire Academy site for registrar May 20.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking has $3,147.29, the money market has $1,838.16, the CD has $2,851.15, equals $7,836.60.  Motion by John Ranieri 2^nd by Butch Stofffregen to accept treasurers’ report.

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

Crestwood paid?

 

TRAINING:

Unified command needs to have ESDA included.  Everyone that attended the sessions said they went ok.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

Bob Small set off a SMART page Thursday afternoon at before 15:00 to Alpha numeric pagers and Nextel’s.

 

Cook County frequency to be used as command frequency is 153.815 with a digital PL D662N (N = normal).  Belongs to Cook County Sheriff only used for Incident Command for mobile only.  This is a Command and control frequency.

 

Everyone needs to change ESMARN (155.025) to have PL D662N.  This will make it easier for our use.  You won’t hear other people on channel only SMART, (until you go off hook).

 

South Holland is going to be a field support site for South Cook County ESDA.  There are other towns set up in other areas of Cook County to be field support.  Use field support as administrative if you don’t have enough resources.  You call field support and tell them what you need.

 

Dobner will be changing our web host by June.  This doesn’t change the way you need to access the web site.

 

EQUIPMENT:

Keep John updated on changes.

If you need the update let John Dobner know.  You will get the updated on disk if you bring disks.

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

Radio frequencies are a couple tools that Cook is trying to help with.

 

Resource guides are being packaged and to be sent ASAP.

 

Last Thursday some units were called to help at Keane & 95^th.  Sheriff wanted ESDA to relief their officers.  John Pluta assessed the situation and didn’t think it was necessary for ESDA to respond.  Remember if you call the state when responding to a call Workmen’s Compensation doesn’t kick in.

 

Shelter management will be done in near future 6 hour class.  Looking for day & night classes.

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

No Report

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

No Report

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

How was conference, it was expressed that sessions were really good.  Lots of good info shared, weather etc.  Radiological is now Department of Nuclear Safety responsibility.

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Conference is September 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th in Springfield.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No report

 

Accountability Tag COMMITTEE:

Some people are ordering from Eagle engraving at eagle-engraving.com

 

OLD BUSINESS:

SMART seminar can we plan one for this year, fall.  There was a table top that Dobner went to in Orland Mall.  There is a new company that does the table tops.

 

We have a need for a coordinators work shop.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Mokena 4^th of July parade 8:00 EOC.  Needs traffic control help.

Fireworks also are happening and need help.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:39 May 9, 2002.  Motion by Art Johnson 2^nd by Sandy Patlak.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

 

 

Dates to remember:

-         September 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th IEMA conference in Springfield.

 

 

All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2002 Meetings host:

 

May 9         Blue Island

June 13       Dolton (Traded with South Holland)

July 11       Steger

August 8      Crestwood

September 12  South Holland

October 10    Lynwood

November 14   Sauk Village

December      NO MEETING