HomeMy WebLinkAboutE911Minutes_2019_07_18EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
E911 MEETING
Thursday, July 18, 2019; 8:30 a.m.
City & County Government Center Room 241 (2rd Floor)
307 3rd Avenue
Board members present: Mike Bartley (County Commission), Patty Bacon (City
Council), and Larry Jensen (County Commission)
Others present: Dave Erickson (BPD), JoLynn Longville (Communications), Marty
Stanwick (SO), Bob Hill (County Emergency Management/Zoning), Darrell Hartman
(Fire Dept.), Stacy Steffensen (Commission Dept. Director), and Jacob
Meshke(Assistant to the City Manager)
Members Absent: Paul Briseno (City Manager)
Others present:
Call to order: Meeting was called to order by Bartley. Bacon / Jensen moved to
approve the minutes of the May 2019 meeting. All present voted aye. Motion
approved.
Adoption of agenda: Bacon/Jensen made the motion to approve the agenda.
Bills: Erickson reviewed non-recurring bills from April 2019 through June 2019.
Bacon / Jensen moved to approve non-recurring bills. All present voted aye.
Motion approved.
Quarterly Numbers: Longville provided an overview of the quarterly numbers.
Old Business:
Discussion on the location of the back-up dispatch center:
D. Erickson stated the board was presented with different options for a back-up dispatch
center, and the topic was tabled. Need to keep the discussion present. M. Bartley
asked if it’s a location thing or a funding. D. Erickson said both. P. Bacon asked if
conversations have been had with SDSU for a backup center. D. Erickson said SDSU is
open to the idea the largest cost would be a tower, if it is decided to be needed. M.
Bartley said location needs to first be determined D. Erickson will visit with SDSU and
bring back information for the October meeting. D. Erickson recommended the east fire
station might be an option if SDSU did not work. L. Jensen mentioned the location being
at the landfill. D. Erickson said that is a state tower and doesn’t work with an alog. L.
Jensen asked if another tower could be located there. D. Hartman said they would have
to check with the FAA and FCC, which can take up to 3 years.
New Business:
Discussion on the purchase of repeaters for Bruce & White.
B. Hill stated a contract has been made with Sioux Falls Solutions and a repeater will be
located on the Bruce elevator and the White water tower. Elkton has been an issue but
we will have to wait and see once the two repeaters are up if it provides the coverage
needed. D. Hartman thinks Elkton is being pushed into a White situation with no
coverage. B. Hill said Motorola is not concerned right now and thinks the coverage is
going to reach Elkton. He also said with the antenna being raised he thinks it will work in
Elkton. M. Bartley said worst case scenario if it does not rea ch we will need to budget
for a repeater to be placed on the elevator. L. Jenson said in the agreement for cost it
states any communication cost with in the county would be covered by E 911 budget. M.
Bartley said we should look back and see what we have done in the past. L. Jensen
said it would be beneficial to have 1 person in the county with radio experience to
handle the situation. D. Hartman said Pete Bolzer used to do this for a lot of years. D.
Hartman will have to have discussions with Pete and the City Manager and ask if Pete
can conduct a test the area. Erickson said having Pete being the go to guy for radio
problems would be a good resource for these agencies . The department’s ambulance
and fire need to step up and take action too. There is one ambulance that doesn’t have
a working mobile radio.
D. Hartman said it falls back on the department to check with their vendor when they
have radio problems. When these towers go up every agency in the county will have to
reprogram their radios for $25 per radio. J.Longville asked if there was a timeframe
when the repeaters would be going in. B. Hill said it takes about three months - so
sometime in October or November.
Member reports:
E. Erickson updated the committee on the vendor for the phone system to have
installed late summer, possibly after Hobo Days.
D. Erickson updated the committee that $10,000 set aside for the digital radio upgrades
was not in the 2019 budget as previously thought. To make up for this, $5,000 was
added to 2021 and 2022 Budgets.
Next meeting: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 8:30 AM.
Regular quarterly meetings are held in January, April, July, and October on the
third Thursday of the month. Budget discussion is held in May.
Adjourn
Submitted by Chris Larson