Antrim County E-911 Board

 

 

Date:    July 13, 2005

Meeting held in the Antrim County Sheriff Administration Conference Room, 107 Grove St. Bellaire, Mi.             

 

Members Present:             

Johnson, Trumble, Goeman, Thompson, Chapman                         

 

Members Absent:                               

Robinson, Elliott, Jankowski, Bargy

 

Others Present:                  

Sgt. Bratschi

 

Call to Order:

Meeting called to order at 4:20 by Johnson

 

Public Comment:

None

 

Approval of Minutes:

Motion by Trumble, seconded by Thompson to approve the May 11, 2005 minutes as written.

All members present voting Aye.  Motion passed.          

 

Financial Report:

The financial reports for April and May were provided for review and approval. 

The Operating Fund for May has a balance of $634,897.58 and the Wireless Fund for May has a balance        

of $155,090.68 .Motion by Goeman, seconded by Trumble to approve the report as provided.  All members present voting Aye.  Motion passed.      

                    

Johnson advised that a sponsor is being sought to introduce new legislation to continue and raise the wireless funding.  The present window for funding will close at the end of 2006.

 

The 911 budget for 2006 has been submitted to the county for the first committee approval. 

 

Operation Update:

Report provided by Sgt. Bratschi for Fire Service, EMS and Law Enforcement.

The no. 2 CAD is inoperable with no phone service.

The two trainees are proceeding with their CTO program. Sheryl Kosal is in stage 3 and Lauri Bertalan is

in stage 2. 

The UPS batteries that were approved by the board were ordered May30th.  They are on back order.

The GPS software stopped working when an update was preformed.  New software may need to be

purchased.   

The ETSC audit did not approve of the language in our 911 Plan as it does not specifically provide for a

firefighter being on the board.  The plan must be opened to provide for that language.

The tower by the Sheriff Department is not in FCC compliance as it is not licensed.  OTEC Communications is working on the licensing.                                                                                     

 

Communications:

None

 

New Business:

The Orchard Hill tower is also not in FCC compliance.  It needs to be painted and lighted.

A quote for $3945 has been received from Northern Tower Erection Co from Traverse City.

Motion by Thompson, seconded by Trumble to hire Northern Tower Erection Co.  to paint and

light the Orchard Hill tower to bring it into FCC compliance.   All present voting Aye.  Motion

carried. Johnson advised he has contacted Terry Smith with Forest Home Township to make sure this would not violate any township ordnance.

 

Discussion from Johnson and Thompson reference the two stop lights in the county and response if

they go dark.  Thompson advised there are three options:  Do not respond – send police response or

erect temporary signs.    The recommended option is not to respond.  Both lights are on State Of Michigan highways.    Neither the County Road Commission nor the Sheriff Department will respond to these incidents.  Notice will be send to respective police and fire departments and the new 911 SOP manual will include these recommendations.

 

Johnson brought up recent discussions with Echo Township reference dispatching Central Lake

Township Fire as their contractual responder to downed trees and downed power lines on private

property.   Echo Township requests that Central Lake not be dispatched for those events.

Their request will be honored and the County Road Commission will be contacted for those events

that do not involve power lines or other such hazardous conditions.

 

Old Business:

From the meeting of May 11th Johnson requested additional discussion reference a new radio system.

The verbal estimate for a new system that would include our current system as well as accommodate 800 MHz is around $150,000.  Our current equipment is 20 years old and parts are either difficult to find or not available.  Tele-Rad currently contracts with us and have the optimum equipment available.  They should be considerate for a sole source bid if approval to continue is received.

A motion by Goeman, seconded by Trumble to move forward with the approval process for

a new radio system and secondly to request consideration for Tele-Rad as a sole source bidder.

All present voting Aye.   Motion carried.    

 

Member Comment:

None

               

Adjournment:

Motion by Trumble and seconded by Goeman to adjourn at 4:40PM.

 

Minutes by:  

Goeman           Next meeting is scheduled for September 14, 2005 at 3 PM.