DuPage County Emergency Telephone System Board Met April 5.
Here is the minutes provided by the board:
1. CALL TO ORDER
9:00 AM meeting was called to order by Chair Timothy Hayden at 9:00 AM.
A. To view the live stream video of this meeting, please go to https://youtu.be/oazeHddofLU
2. ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Hayden, Baarman (Remote), Gorsky (Remote), Kramer, Romanelli (9:04 AM)
ABSENT:
Attendees:
Director Zerwin, DuPage Emergency Telephone System Board (Remote)
Matt Theusch, Emergency Telephone System Board
Eve Kraus, DuPage Emergency Telephone System Board
Mike Sampey, Village of Addison
John Lozar, DU-COMM (Remote)
Dave Schar, Chief of Police, Winfield Police Department (Remote)
Andrea Lieberenz, Addison Police Department, Secretary (Remote)
On roll call, Chairman Hayden, Member Baarman, Member Gorsky, and Member Kramer which constituted a quorum. Member Romanelli was absent.
3. CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS - CHAIR - HAYDEN
1. Resolution Acknowledging Chief Anthony Romanelli
Chairman Hayden advised there will be a resolution read at the next ETS Board meeting acknowledging Member Romanelli for his time, dedication, effort, and expertise while on the PAC.
4. PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no Public comment.
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. ETSB - Policy Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting - Mar 1, 2021 9:00 AM
A motion was made by Member Kramer, seconded by Member Gorsky, to forward the minutes from the March 1, 2021 meeting to the ETS Board to receive and place on file. On roll call, motion carried.
| RESULT: RECEIVE AND PLACE ON FILE [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Erik Kramer, Deputy Chief Addison FPD SECONDER: Steven Gorsky, Chief Darien-Woodridge FD AYES: Hayden, Baarman, Gorsky, Kramer, Romanelli |
A. Radio Maintainer Report
1. 20-21-27 DEDIRS Monthly Maintainer Report
All Members had already received and reviewed the Radio Maintainer Report. Member Romanelli joined the meeting at 9:04am.
A motion was made by Member Kramer, seconded by Member Gorsky, to forward the report to the ETS Board to receive and place on file. On roll call, motion carried.
Chairman Hayden took the opportunity go back to the Chairman's Remarks and thank Member Romanelli for his service to the PAC over the years, but Member Romanelli was experiencing issues with his audio and was unable to hear or respond.
| RESULT: ACCEPTED AND PLACED ON FILE [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Erik Kramer, Deputy Chief Addison FPD
SECONDER: Steven Gorsky, Chief Darien-Woodridge FD AYES: Hayden, Baarman, Gorsky, Kramer, Romanelli |
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Minutes Emergency Telephone System Board - Policy Advisory Committee April 5, 2021
A. 20-21-26 West Chicago FPD is requesting STARCOM access to Regional Emergency Dispatch (RED) Center channels for the Search and Rescue Strike Team (SRST) per Policy 911-005.4: DEDIRS Subscriber Unit Programming and Use of Talk Groups.
Ms. Zerwin advised that West Chicago is joining a MABAS Group, and this request is a modification to their template. West Chicago has submitted the appropriate paperwork from RED Center. There is only one reference to the legacy frequencies, and these would be STARCOM talkgroups. She was unsure if the request had to come through the PAC. The consensus was this kind of modification request did not have to come through the PAC. Chairman Hayden said this was just a point of information.
8. PARENT COMMITTEE APPROVAL REQUIRED
A. DEDIRS Radio Airtime Requests
1. 20-21-24 STARCOM21 Radio Airtime Request Carol Stream PD to add one (1) mobile radios to the ETSB contract.
A motion was made by Member Baarman, seconded by Member Kramer to recommend approval of the Carol Stream PD request to add one (1) mobile radio to the ETSB airtime contract. On roll call, motion carried.
| RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Matt Baarman, Du-Comm SECONDER: Erik Kramer, Deputy Chief Addison FPD AYES: Hayden, Baarman, Gorsky, Kramer, Romanelli |
A motion was made by Member Gorsky, seconded by Member Baarman to recommend approval of the Hinsdale FD request to add three (3) mobile radios to the ETSB airtime contract. On roll call, motion carried.
| RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Steven Gorsky, Chief Darien-Woodridge FD SECONDER: Matt Baarman, Du-Comm AYES: Hayden, Baarman, Gorsky, Kramer, Romanelli |
1. Outline for DEDIRS Radio Replacement Report
The draft outline for DEDIRS radio replacement was shared onscreen. Chairman Hayden said the outline identified everything that will need to be looked at and discussed that is known to date, and asked if there were any objections to providing a report to the ETS Board by July or August 2021. To this end, he asked if there would be any objections to having bi-monthly meetings, to which there were none. Member Kramer was unsure of when his replacement, Deputy Chief Patrick Johl, would be appointed and thought it would be advantageous to have him involved in the current radio discussions. Member Kramer would reach out to DC Johl about the meeting schedule so he could attend meetings prior to his appointment. Ms. Zerwin added the intention would be to pass the PAC policy at the upcoming ETS Board meeting on April 14. Appointments to the PAC would follow.
Member Romanelli rejoined the meeting at 9:10am.
Ms. Zerwin asked if Member Baarman should talk about encryption at the next meeting in May or at a second meeting in April. Chairman Hayden stressed the importance of moving this project along and asked for a second meeting in April. Ms. Zerwin inquired into how much time Member Baarman needs to prepare for an encryption discussion. Member Baarman talked about a few details regarding the Motorola feature including surveying the interoperability of neighbors, TDMA capabilities, un-patching of the fire radios as far as encryption is concerned, and over the air programming. With over 3,500 radios at 90 minutes each, that's almost 220 constant days of programming. There is Wi Fi programming to consider. Ms. Zerwin noted Wi-Fi is one of the features and can be added to the list. Member Baarman stated there would be some research regarding the features that would be turned on. He could provide a list of questions and items that are missing. Chairman Hayden asked if he could be ready for a second meeting in April to which Member Baarman responded yes. Some of these questions are big and Member Baarman believed discussion needs to be started to highlight the issues for the representatives to bring back to their agencies.
A schedule of bi-monthly meetings would be created and distributed for review before approval.
2. Review of Survey Results
Chief Schar presented his slides of the survey results from the police agencies. In summary, most of the Chiefs want some form of encryption, which raises questions about how it will be done, and pushed out. He thinks some of the jurisdictions do not understand the process. Chiefs are all over the board in what they believe should be encrypted: some only want tactical and local, some want everything, and some only want the surveillance channels. He said this needs to be widdled down to get the majority’s desire to serve the best amount of our constituents. Chief Schar said half of the Chiefs were willing to pay up to $900.00 per unit. He said everyone is on board to take the old radios and put them into a stash for people who might need them during an incident. He discussed the role of CSOs within the agencies and the support to investigate a change in legislation to include CSOs as first responders. He said the survey allows focus our activity and what questions to ask, such as how it will impact our neighbors, multi-key vs. single key, hardware vs. software, etc. He asked if anyone had any questions.
Chairman Hayden asked if Chief Schar knew which agencies failed to respond. Chief Schar responded they do not due to a drop down that was overlooked and not configured within the survey. Chairman Hayden assumed the discussions will keep moving ahead. Chief Schar said agencies were given enough time to fill out the survey. Chairman Hayden thanked Chief Schar for the report.
10. OLD BUSINESS
There was no old business.
11. NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business.
12. NEXT MEETING:
A. Monday, May 3 at 9:00am in Room 3-500B/Virtual
The consensus was all the Members could make the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, May 3. The next meeting will be a special call scheduled for Monday, April 19 at 9:00am in Room 3-500B/Virtual.
Member Romanelli commented his computer had been updated while he was gone last week and he could not hear a word of what was said for the first part of the meeting. He apologized and said he would be available for the second April meeting. The PAC thanked Member Romanelli for everything he had done, laughingly again, and that they were sorry to see him leave. Member Romanelli said it was a pleasure working with the PAC. He gave a special thanks to Ms. Zerwin for being a good partner to him over the years.
13. ADJOURNMENT
Member Baarman made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Member Kramer. The meeting of the PAC was adjourned at 9:29am.
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