Communications Board
Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Monroe County, New York
Maggie Brooks Tim Warth
County Executive Chairman
MONROE COUNTY FIRE/EMS COMMUNICATIONS BOARD
MINUTES OF MEETING: May 19, 2011
ATTENDANCE: P. Bietry, S. Bowman, J. Coates, S. DeRosa, S. Leuchtner, T. Link,
J. Merklinger, D. Pfersick, L. Ruiz, R. VanDenBerg, L. Vaughan, R. Zwaga,
D. Sansone
EXCUSED: T. Czapranski, S. Lancaster, T. Warth
GUESTS: Al Sienkiewicz - Monroe County Fire Bureau
Heidi Boehl - North Greece Fire Department
The meeting was called to order by Vice Chairman Steve Leuchtner at 5:05 PM.
A quorum of voting members was present.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
March meeting minutes were approved.
COMMUNICATIONS
None
EXISTING SYSTEM STATUS/NARROWBAND – T. Warth
No Report
FUTURE TRUNKING SYSTEM COMMITTEES – T. Warth
No Report
DIGITAL PAGING – R. Verdouw (S. Bowman)
· Additional receivers on 3 & 4 have been installed
ECD DIRECTOR’S REPORT – J. Merklinger
· CAD Project is on schedule
· Codes will be locked October 2011 – May 2012 due to CAD Project, unless emergency
· With the support of Sam DeRosa, the info received was good for fire inventories
· Recording system is in and installed
· Finished installing computers and monitors @ ECD workstations
· Sign-On statusing program for ambulance – bulk is done
· IAMRESPONDING paging system – current CAD system cannot send info to cell phones. Looking into costs for this feature with the new CAD system. 9-11 currently has only had 2 requests for IAMRESPONDING to be sent to cell phones.
**ANYONE HAVING IAMRESPONDING INSTERESTED IN WANTING TO INTEGREATE WITH THE COUNTY, PLEASE CONTACT JOHN MERKLINGER***
EMS REPORT – T. Czapranski
FIRE BUREAU REPORT – S. DeRosa
· Introduced Al Sienkiewicz, Deputy Fire Coordinator to the Board. Al will be attending these meetings.
· Thank you to all who were involved with the Communications Summit. The summit went well.
FIRE ADVISORY REPORT – J. Lemcke
PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR – S. Bowman
(see R. Verdouw report)
NEW BUSINESS
OLD BUSINESS
ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT – M. Dobbertin
BATTALION REPORTS
Batt 1 – Nothing new to report
Batt 2 - L. Vaughan
· Communications Summit – Consensus is that people who attended the summit seem to be more informed about the Trunk Project.
· Met on May 18th to discuss funding for the Truck Project
Batt 3 - Nothing new to report
Batt 4 – J. Coates.
· Jay spoke briefly of the Standard Operating Guide that the 4th battalion is now following.
· The 4th Battalion has also started pre-planning on funding for the new Trunk System. The 4th Battalion has met with the County Fire Bureau, County Public Safety, and Navatech. Per Steve Bowman, Navatech has agreed to pay for a Professional Grant Writer. Battalion Reps should pass this on to their respective agencies. This initiative is open to all battalions. Please contact Jay Coates.
Batt 5 - P. Bietry
· At the 5th Battalion meeting, the battalion agreed that the “IAMRESPONDING” Program is a feature that the battalion departments want to use. Contact John Merklinger if you would like this feature.
· Question – When is the cell phone announcement of the event going to be available to end users? Per John Merklinger the current CAD does not support this feature. Currently looking into the cost for the new system to accept this feature.
ANYTHING FOR THE GOOD OF THE BOARD
P. Bietry made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 5:40 PM, motion seconded by D. Pfersick. Motion carried.
The next meeting of the Fire and EMS Communications Board is scheduled for
Thursday June 16, 2011@ 5:00 pm in Room 201A Conference Room at the
Public Safety Training Facility, 1190 Scottsville Road.
1190 Scottsville Road Suite 203 Rochester, NY 14624 (585) 753-3750/FAX (585) 753-3867