providing and had asked them to take part, which would give DuPage a primary and secondary
seat. Member Kramer asked if the decision had been made as to who would take those seats.
PAC Chair Dina replied Westmont Fire retired Deputy Chief Jim Connolly and Lieutenant John
Sullivan of Addison Fire.
Ms. Zerwin said the State's Attorney's Office was researching whether any of the travel costs
incurred with those two seats could be an allowable cost in support of physical attendance at the
meetings which are not held virtually. She stated that if the costs were allowable, she would
bring them back to the Board for approval of this expense.
Chairman Schwarze asked if either Member attending via Zoom had questions or comments.
Member Rauter said he had been attending the PAC meetings as well as Fire Focus Group and
was impressed with the progress that had been made. He complimented PAC Chair Dina for
having Board's interests at heart. Member Rauter reviewed the April timeline of the NFPA and
the decision to be made between the APXNext XN and XE. He said they were making good
progress and he was enjoying his attendance at both venues.
The Board then moved on to Agenda Item 9.
8.B. Fire
PAC Chair Dina started with the Fire update. He thanked the Board for approving the Group
Messaging Services which would allow for the programming of the mobiles to move forward.
He reviewed the work of the Fire Focus Group with the NFPA Task Group, most of whom make
up the Committee. He discussed some of the recommendations DuPage has made and the videos
provided to the NFPA to assist in their discussions. PAC Chair Dina said the next meeting of the
NFPA Task Group is tomorrow.
PAC Chair Dina then moved back to Agenda Item 8.A. Police.
9.
DU PAGE ETSB 9-1-1 SYSTEM DESIGN
Ms. Zerwin informed the Board that since the house bill became a public act that provides for a
vehicle to redistribute unused funds back to the 9-1-1 systems, as was discussed at the State
meeting that there is going to be a redistribution of funds. She said the distribution is $30M of
which DuPage ETSB will receive $2,601,413.84, which basically covers the true up of the
radios.
Vice Chair Franz asked if it was an ongoing thing where they might received revenue down the
road. Ms. Zerwin said at the State level, there are funds automatically distributed in the tariff.
She said the State Police receives funding for administrative business. There was no mechanism
in the Statute to return any unused funding at the end of the year so it accumulated over
approximately five years. With the sunset, language was added to say the funding could be
distributed to the 9-1-1 systems at the end of the year so there is a good chance, but not to the
extent they are seeing in this distribution. Ms. Zerwin also said if there is money left over from
the consolidation grants it gets redistributed but that last year the request for grants was greater
than the amount set aside so there was nothing to be returned to the Systems.
10.
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OLD BUSINESS
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NEW BUSINESS