Peoria Standard

Woodford County Public Safety Committee met Nov. 13.

Here is the minutes provided by the committee:

1. Call to Order

The Chairman called the meeting to order 

2. Roll Call – Barty Logan (ch), Donald Tolan, Emily Barker, Blake Parsons all present. Justin Faulk is absent.

3. Approval of Minutes

a. Approval of October 7, 2019 minutes 

Motion to approve October 7 regular meeting minutes made by Parsons, seconded by Barker. Motion passed.

4. Public Input

5. Approval of Claims

Motion to approve November claims made by Tolan, seconded by Parsons. Questions regarding the SCRAM Systein Marketing. It should have been "Monitoring" and not "marketing" and was misspelled on the claim sheet. It was asked about the Olge County Treasurer Payment. That was for a sex offender assessment for a client for Focus House. The HVAC repairs were for the heating pump in the VA office, a heat pump in the Judges office, and a hot water valve on RTU 6 which does the courtroom and Public Safety Building. It was asked about the claim to PF Pettybone for citation racial profiling tickets and why such wording. It is state required to have the racial profiling wording on the tickets. And a question regarding the Widemer chairs for the Coroner. The coroner offered to use money he receives from cremation certificates to buy the 911 office new chairs. They are special chairs that allow for long siting times. This money is from fees and not tax payer= dollars. Motion passed. 

6. Coroner

7. Sheriff

a. Minonk Tower Site Agreement

Minonk has signed the contract to allow the county to install equipment on their tower for StarCom. It will be at a cost of $200 per month starting in January when the equipment gets installed. The agreement is through 2031 and the cost will increase by 2% every two years, Motion to accept the Minonk Agreement and send to the full Board made by Barker, seconded by Tolan. Motion passed.

b. Metamora Tower Site Agreement

8. Chief Deputy Tipsword address the committee regarding issues with the Washburn and Minonk towers for StarCom. The tower in Minonk is needed for communication in that part of the County. They had hoped one tower would suffice for the northern part of the County, but the tower is not tall enough to reach into Washburn and further west. They are looking at towers in Metamora to cover the western part of the county. There are three towers to consider in Metamora. The furthest tower to the north has the greatest advantage for the county. One tower, the American Tower Site on Rt 116, we would rent at a cost of $1,600 per month - $342,000 over a 19 year contract. In addition we would have to build a shelter and supply our own generator. The tower on CH 1 is too short for the distance of coverage needed. Verizon owns the furthest northern tower, and would sign the tower over to us. We would have maintenance of the tower, lights and painting, which are an unknown, but research has showed it would be around $5,000 every 3-4 years. There are currently 5 big satellite dishes on the tower that we would ask Verizon to remove. We would have a land lease with the land owner for this tower. Chief Deputy Tipsword has been working with the land owner to get the best price. Currently they have negotiated a 19 year lease at the cost of $157,350.

Currently when a patrol car is in the north western part of the county, they can only hear what is going on in that area. Dispatch has to call them through a particular tower. With the upgrade to StarCom, the deputy will be able to monitor the whole county,

A site survey will be done on the Metamora tower to let us know the condition of the tower before we move forward. Motion to approve agreement, depending on outcome of tower survey and move the full board made by Parsons, seconded by Barker. Motion passed.

a. Approval of Resolution 2018-19 #84 Sheriff overseeing EMA

In order to move EMA under the Sheriff's direction, a resolution has to be done and sent to the State. Motion to approve Resolution 2018-19 #084 placing EMA under the direction of the Sheriff's Department made by Tolan, seconded by Barker. Motion passed.

9. Animal Control 

10. Health Department 

11, New Business

a. Set meeting schedule for upcoming session

There are two months in which a holiday falls on a Monday and the meetings will have to be moved. Discussion on meeting times. Motion to move the Public Safety Committee meetings to 4:30PM, set September's meeting to the 9th, and set October's meeting to the

7th, and accept the calendar as presented made by Parsons, seconded by Tolan. Motion passed.

12. Unfinished Business

a. Discussion on courthouse historical society (J. Faulk) This will be on next month's agenda. 

13. Other 

14. Executive Session - Roll Call Vote 

15. Any action coming out of Executive Session 

16. Adjournment

Motion to adjourn made by Tolan, seconded by Parsons. Motion passed.

Meeting adjourned at 5:10 PM.

https://www.woodford-county.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11132019-998