SMART

Suburban Mutual Assistance Response Team

 

Meeting October 10, 2002 in Lynwood started at 19:50.

 

COMMUNITIES & OFFICERS PRESENT:

(X) = Present at meeting        SMART 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)

( )  3rd Director            John Ranieri     (Rich Township)

(X)  4^th Director            John Thomas     (South Holland)

 

Communities                  SMART Coordinator/Representative

1.(X)Blue Island              Bill Claessens

2.(X)Calumet City            James Meincke

3.(X)Chicago Heights        Michael Pope

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

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

6.( )Crestwood                   Bob Winberg

7.(X)Dolton                  Sandy Patlak, Art Gewalt,

                              Bob Claessens

8.(X)Hometown                Joe Kouba

9.(X)Lynwood                 John Levon Jr., Jeff Morden,

                              Joe Romero, Mike Claywell,

                              John Pearson, Mike Swinford,

                              Margie Claywell, Judy Romero,

                              F. C. Waciszdcke

10.(X)Markham     James Bibbs

11.( )Mokena          Greg McElyea, Phil Durling

12.( )New Lenox          William 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

17.( )Rich Township            John Ranieri, Jeff Schoeling,

18.( )Riverdale              Tim Kruszynski

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.( )Tinley Park           Ken Buck

24.(X)Will County            Harold Damron, William Ferguson

25.( )Red Cross               Yevette Alexander

26.( )State Region 4       Ron Carlson

 

GUEST:

Opening Pledge & Prayer

 

MINUTES:

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

 

CORRESPONDENCE:

Introduction to Mitigation workshop given by IEMA, Wednesday October 23 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Thursday October 24 8:30 – 5:00 PM, Friday October 25 8:30 – 5:00 cost is FREE.  Call 217/782-8719 for reservations or Regional Coordinator.

 

Explosive device technologies seminar 11/21-22 Hyatt Lisle the cost is $225.00.

 

TREASURER REPORT:

The checking account has $2,890.87, the money market has $2,231.90, the CD has $2,880.08, equals $8,002.85.  Motion by Art Johnson 2^nd by Jim Dean to accept treasurers’ report.

 

TRAINING:

The September 29^th Disaster drill ran 3 hours.  This exercise was geared more toward the Hospitals response.  The scenario had toxic gas & a sniper.  Chicago Heights was part of the film crew. The film will be aired on the Fire Emergency satellite system.

 

COMMUNICATIONS:

Bob Small set off a SMART page Thursday morning at around 10:30 to alphanumeric pagers & NEXTELs.

Pages that failed Thursday because of invalid PIN were, Hometown Jim & Joe both failed, Calumet City NEXTEL.

 

September 21 Bob Small got a call to page out for Mutual Aid to Lynwood.  He paged Richton Pk, Richtownship, Sauk Village, Calumet City, Thornton.  Lynwood thought the response time was slow.  Thanks from Lynwood to Thornton, Richtownship, Sauk Village for their assistance.

 

To have better pager coverage should we provide the directors with the paging program too?  This then would give the President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasure, Directors, and John Dobner the capability of paging SMART.  There has to be rules of use followed.  This is referred to the Communications committee for resolution.

 

EQUIPMENT:

Keep John Dobner updated on changes, phone numbers, equipment, pagers, NEXTEL’s etc.

 

November will be equipment sheet fill out month.  John wants them back the next month.  Every community should fill out the form just to make sure the database is accurate.

 

STATE REGION 4:

No Report

 

COOK COUNTY: www.cookcountysheriff.org

No Report

 

WILL COUNTY: www.willcountyema.org

Participated in the Tinley Park EMS drill on 10/29.  Did decontamination and brought the Command Post.

 

Exxon Mobil held a disaster drill.

 

Braid wood had a nuclear exercise 10/9.

 

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON:

Nothing

 

IESMA (Illinois Emergency Services Management Association):

No Report

 

IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency):

Conference is September 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th 2003 in Springfield at the Crown Plaza.

 

RED CROSS LIAISON:

No Report

 

Members Status:

Orland Hills status is doubtful they have budget problems.  Roger will contact Jack again and see how it is going.

 

OLD BUSINESS:

Picture ID status, John Dobner doesn’t have pictures from all the communities.  The ones he has will be processed after he clears it with the individual that will do the cards.  Answer should be up coming in November.

 

Committee will be formed to decide the use of Operational Fee.  If you want to be on the committee let Roger Mumford know.

 

Jim Dean has found passed amendments and passed out new by-laws please read them and give some input for improvement.  Do we need to change the by-laws again since February 2001 or not?

Boundaries should be adjusted, Secretary will send out the by-laws to all for reading.  Submit your written changes to Jim Dean.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

Motion for John Dobner to work on Christmas Party planning for 12/12 by Bob Small 2^nd by Art Johnson.

Motion to allot $600 towards this dinner by Art Johnson 2^nd by Bob Small.

 

James Bibbs suggested that if we have a sick member to send card. James will check on cost of cards to be made up with SMART printed on them.  James Bibbs will get someone to make a card example to be approved at the November meeting.

 

South Holland said thanks to those that helped with their parade of lights.

 

ADJOURNED at 20:40 October 10, 2002.  Motion by James Bibbs 2^nd by All.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joe Pilch

SMART Secretary

(708)687-8383

 

 

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All Meetings start at 7:30 PM.

 

2002 Meetings host:

 

September 12     South Holland

October 10     Lynwood

November 14   Sauk Village

December       NO MEETING