Public Safety Committee

PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING SUMMARY Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Fire Station 2 - Room # 117r 8360 W. Dempster St Members Present: Dean Strzelecki - Chair, Police Chief Dennis Mc Enerney, Fire Chief Steve Borkowski. Members Absent: Anthony Fidanza Meeting called to order at 9:15 A.M. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Chairman Strzelecki asked for a motion to approve June 1,2015 meeting minutes. Motion by Chief Mc Enerney to accept minutes of June 1,2015 meeting. Second by Chief Borkowski. Minutes accepted unanimously. PUBLIC COMMENTS None NEW BUSINESS POLICE 1. Starcom radio system Chief Mc Enemey discussed the fact that the police department must give up their radio frequencies by 2019 as directed by the FCC and move to the 700 or 800 MHz bands. Police agencies are looking to switch to the Motorola Starcom system. Glenview is currently switching to the 800 MHz Starcom system, both Fire and Police, at a cost of over one million dollars. Chief Mc Enerney indicated that the police are currently associated with NORCOMAIORTAF and have to  decide if they are going to stay with this group to switch radio equipment or make the switch alone. Chief Mc Enemey indicated Motorola offered a five year contract to lease all necessary radios and maintenance for those radios for $600,000. Trustee Strzelecki asked what the cost difference between purchasing the communication equipment or leasing it? Trustee Strzelecki also asked what the police department's current radio costs were. Chief Mc Enemey to obtain those figures. 2. Vehicles Chief Mc Enerney stated they are doing research on replacing current squad cars. The plan is to budget for replacement in next year's budget and to purchase 2017 model year vehicles. Chief stated there is a vehicle committee being formed to address issue. Chief discussed two potential vehicles, the Ford Explorer and the Chevrolet Tahoe. Trustee Strzelecki asked for figures showing the cost savings by using the program where each officer is issued own squad vehicle. Public Safety committee agreed that new vehicles should be 4-wheel drive due to adverse weather conditions personnel are faced with. 3. Personnel Chief Mc Enerney stated that police had just hired one new officer. Beginning process to hire two more all of which are replacements for personnel who have left. F'IRE 1. Vehicles Chief Borkowski reported thatanew fire engine is being built currently. The process began in May with Fire and Public Service employees completing the specifications for the vehicle. Those employees visited the plant in Appleton, WI to frnalize the specifications with the manufacturer. Those employees will visit the plant again in February 2016 to inspect the vehicle after it has been painted. The estimated date of delivery to the village is March 1,2016. Personnel will begin the process of replacing the command vehicle, a2001 Chewolet Suburban. This vehicle is used by the District Chiefs as their emergency response vehicle. Both of these vehicles are in the current budget. 2. Personnel Chief Borkowski reported that fire department was in the process of hiring two new personnel to replace two who have retired. The chief indicated that there are two more probable retirements at the end of November and the department would  like to begin the process of hiring for those two also. The thought being that if or when those two individuals retire new personnel will be ready to be hired immediately. There was some discussion by both chiefs about not being able to hire new personnel until retiring personnel were officially gone. There are incidents where an individual will be off on permanent disability but the workman's comp and pension process could take an additional three to six months before the individual is officially retired. Meanwhile there are significant overtime costs to cover that individual's position on the force(s). Trustee Strzelecki indicated he would like to review that village policy. 3. Station 3 renovation Based on the 2014 facilities assessment report, completed by the Wight company, Public Services budgeted $25,000 for design drawings and $753,000 for construction costs to renovate fire station 3. Public Services began repaired one of the issues to be addressed and then reached out to Wight to get an idea of the costs involved. Wight came back with a figure of $83,000 for the design drawings and up to 1.5 million dollars for the completion of the project as outlined in the report. Fire and Public services are to meet with Trustee Strzelecki to determine future action on station. Other Business None Executive Session None Next Meetine Date Monday, November 23,2015 at 9:00 AM, fire station 2 Adiournment Meeting adjourned on a motion by Chief Borkowski, second by Chief Mc Enerney at l0:16 A.M..