421 N. COUNTY FARM ROAD  
WHEATON, IL 60187  
DU PAGE COUNTY  
ETSB - Emergency Telephone System  
Board  
Final Summary  
Wednesday, October 8, 2025  
9:00 AM  
Room 3500B  
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1.  
2.  
CALL TO ORDER  
9:00 AM meeting was called to order by Chair Schwarze at 9:10 AM.  
ROLL CALL  
On roll call, Members Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay, McCarthy,  
Robb, Schar, and Wolber were present. Members Eckhoff and Johl were absent.  
Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay,  
McCarthy, Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
PRESENT  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT  
3.  
4.  
5.  
6.  
PUBLIC COMMENT  
There was no public comment.  
CHAIR'S REMARKS - CHAIR SCHWARZE  
There were no comments from Chair Schwarze.  
MEMBERS' REMARKS  
There were no Members' remarks.  
CONSENT AGENDA  
Chairman Schwarze asked for a motion to combine Consent Agenda Items A/Monthly Report for  
October 8 B/Revenue Report for October 8; C/Minutes Approval Policy Advisory Committee for  
September 8; D/Minutes Approval Ad Hoc Finance Committee for June 11; E/Minutes Approval  
Ad Hoc Finance Committee for September 10; F/Minutes Approval ETS Board for September  
10. Member Honig motioned, seconded by Member Maranowicz. On voice vote, all Members  
voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Chairman Schwarze asked for a motion to approve Consent Agenda Items A/Monthly Report for  
October 8 B/Revenue Report for October 8; C/Minutes Approval Policy Advisory Committee for  
September 8; D/Minutes Approval Ad Hoc Finance Committee for June 11; E/Minutes Approval  
Ad Hoc Finance Committee for September 10; F/Minutes Approval ETS Board for September  
10. Member Wolber motioned, seconded by Member Honig. On voice vote, all Members voted  
"Aye", motion carried.  
6.A. Monthly Staff Report  
6.A.1.  
Monthly Report for October 8 Regular Meeting  
Attachments:  
6.B. Revenue Report 911 Surcharge Funds  
6.B.1.  
ETSB Revenue Report for October 8 Regular Meeting for Fund 5820/Equalization  
Attachments:  
6.C. Minutes Approval Policy Advisory Committee  
6.C.1.  
ETSB PAC Minutes - Regular Meeting - Monday, September 8, 2025  
Attachments:  
6.D. Minutes Approval Ad Hoc Finance Committee  
6.D.1.  
6.D.2.  
ETSB Ad Hoc Finance Minutes - Regular Meeting - Wednesday, June 11, 2025  
Attachments:  
ETSB Ad Hoc Finance Minutes - Regular Meeting - Wednesday, September 10, 2025  
Attachments:  
6.E. Minutes Approval ETS Board  
6.E.1.  
ETSB Minutes - Regular Meeting - Monday, September 10, 2025  
Attachments:  
APPROVED THE CONSENT AGENDA  
Kyle Wolber  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Andrew Honig  
Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay,  
McCarthy, Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT:  
7.  
VOTE REQUIRED BY ETS BOARD  
7.A. Payment of Claims  
7.A.1.  
Payment of Claims for October 8, 2025 for FY25 - Total for 4000-5820 (Equalization):  
$305,206.80.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
Kyle Wolber  
David Schar  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.B. Change Orders  
7.B.1.  
ETS-R-0009D-24 - Amendment to ETS-R-0009-24 issued to Voiance Language  
Services, PO 924001/6848-1, to encumber additional funds in the County Finance  
software for payment of invoices, to increase the funding in the amount of $17,000,  
resulting in an amended contract total of $67,000, an increase of 34%.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Jessica Robb  
MOVER:  
Marilu Hernandez  
SECONDER:  
7.B.2.  
ETS-R-0074G-21 - Amendment to ETS-R-0074-21 issued to Motorola Solutions, Inc.,  
PO 921054/5522-1, to provide additional portable radio units and accessories to augment  
the original equipment order to be used on the DuPage Emergency Dispatch Interoperable  
Radio System on STARCOM21, to increase the funding in the amount of $4,870,737.99,  
resulting in an amended contract total of $42,281,102.42, an increase of 13.02%.  
Vice Chair Franz asked for a summary of this item as is it a $5M expense.  
Executive Director Zerwin said this was discussed at last month’s board meeting, there  
was a memo talking about all of the different changes for the contract that we found a  
different mobile vendor, which is also on the agenda. This is the replacement for the  
APX4000s for the County and Agency CSOs and the augment of the cache radios and  
accessories to round out that equipment. She said there was consensus from the Board  
last month to move forward with the recommendations. Vice Chair Franz asked if some  
of this will be reimbursed. Executive Director Zerwin said $1.8M will be reimbursed  
from the County.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Sheryl Markay  
Joseph Maranowicz  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.B.3.  
ETS-R-0066G-24 - Amendment to Resolution ETS-R-0066-24, issued to PURVIS  
Systems Incorporated PO 924025/7298-1, to allow for the purchase of additional optional  
Fire Station Alerting (FSA) equipment for the Winfield Fire Protection District and the  
Itasca Fire Department, to increase the funding in the amount of $4,885, resulting in an  
amended contract total of $702,805, and increase of .70%.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
David Schar  
Jessica Robb  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.B.4.  
ETS-R-0071C-20 - Amendment to Resolution ETS-R-0071-20, issued to Motorola  
Solutions, Inc. PO 920153/4951-1, to reconcile the FY25 user radio count operating in  
the DuPage Emergency Dispatch Interoperable Radio System (DEDIRS) for payment and  
accounting of contractual obligations of the DMS Radio Manager contract, for no change  
in contract total amount.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
Kyle Wolber  
Sheryl Markay  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.C. Resolutions  
7.C.1.  
Resolution declaring equipment, inventory, and/or property on Attachment A and  
Attachment B, purchased by the Emergency Telephone System Board of DuPage County  
as surplus equipment.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Sheryl Markay  
Joseph Maranowicz  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.C.2.  
Resolution approving the sale of inventory from the County of DuPage on behalf of the  
Emergency Telephone System Board of DuPage County to the Vermillion/Livingston  
County Consortium for an amount of $125,400.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Joseph Maranowicz  
Marilu Hernandez  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.C.3.  
Resolution to approve access to the DuPage ETSB CAD System network pursuant to  
Policy 911-013: Information Technology and Network Security as requested by  
DU-COMM for use of CommsCoach.  
Executive Director Zerwin said this was a capital request for FY26 before the Ad Hoc  
Finance Committee. There was general consensus to the Board to put this into the FY25  
budget because there are sufficient funds to move this project forward.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Joseph Maranowicz  
Kyle Wolber  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.C.4.  
Resolution to adjust the salaries of the Emergency Telephone System Board of DuPage  
County staff in concurrence with changes as authorized by the DuPage County Board for  
FY26.  
Chair Schwarze said that County is presenting a 3% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)  
to all staff and ETSB is following the County's direction.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Joseph Maranowicz  
Marilu Hernandez  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.D. Purchase Resolutions  
7.D.1.  
Recommendation for the approval of a contract purchase order to Insight Public Sector,  
Inc., PO 924035, for a three (3) year renewal of SolarWinds Observability maintenance  
and support, for a period of October 13, 2025 through October 13, 2028, for a contract  
total not to exceed $101,444.89; contract pursuant to the Governmental Joint Purchasing  
Act, 30 ILCS 525/2 (OMNIA PARTNERS [COBB COUNTY] IT PRODUCTS AND  
SERVICES [#23-6692-03]).  
Vice Chair Franz asked for a little explanation of this item. Executive Director Zerwin  
said it is just a renewal of this is a monitoring software that is kept on the systems to let  
the ETSB technicians know when there is a problem.  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
David Schar  
MOVER:  
Joseph Maranowicz  
SECONDER:  
7.D.2.  
Recommendation for the approval of a contract purchase order to ABeep, LLC, PO  
925029, to furnish and deliver 594 Tait 9900 mobile radios, for a contract total not to  
exceed $3,909,700.04; contract pursuant to the Sourcewell Contract 020625-TAIT.  
Executive Director Zerwin began by saying this procurement was also in the memo. As  
you know, there were issues experienced with the Motorola APX8500 and the Fire Focus  
Group had done some testing. There were drive tests and bench tests of two other  
manufacturers, and while both units passed, the Tait TM9900 was the preferred unit with  
better performance, and the issues experienced with the APX8500 could not be  
reproduced with the Tait TM9900 mobile. Executive Director Zerwin said the Fire and  
Police Chiefs had the opportunity to see both of the other units, the Tait and the  
Kenwood. The preference by the agencies was for Tait. She said that based on the memo  
last month, there was consensus from the Board to move forward with this replacement.  
She said ETSB will be getting a credit for Motorola on all the mobiles, even the ones that  
had been deployed.  
Vice Chair Franz asked what is the delta in terms of savings. Executive Director Zerwin  
said the purchase is a little bit more expensive, but also built into this contract is the  
monthly maintenance, or the annual maintenance for each unit, which is about $560 per  
unit for the next three years. In the pricing in Motorola's contract, that is a separate cost.  
Executive Director Zerwin continues saying by unit, it is a little more expensive, about  
$300,000 higher. And Motorola will be crediting those mobiles which will go towards  
services already in that contract. She said in a month or two, there will be a change order  
to the contract, leveling out that credit and the exchanges which includes some 4000s that  
were not deployed as well as a few other items.  
Vice Chair Franz said, so we will have a memo with all those change orders so we can  
understand exactly what has happened. Executive Director Zerwin reminded Vice Chair  
Franz about last month's memo on what was proposed so this approval would bring that  
memo to fruition based on the Board's direction last month. Vice Chair Franz asked if  
the maintenance will be done still by Motorola. Executive Director Zerwin said it would  
be a different radio, so service would be through ABeep, because the mobile is a different  
manufacturer. She said in three years, the service contract with Motorola for the  
portables will be up, at which time the mobile service would also be up for renewal.  
Having had two different vendors servicing the radios, the ETSB could go to bid for  
service at that point. She said this contract was designed to only go out as far as the  
Motorola contract, so it could all be done at once if the Board chose to.  
Vice Chair Franz asked if the Fire Focus Group was confident that enough testing was  
done with these mobiles that they are going to not have any surprises in the field.  
Executive Director Zerwin said they are confident it does not duplicate the issue  
previously experienced.  
Member Wolber asked if ABeep was providing hardware not network services, that  
ETSB would not be going on their network as far as radio towers or anything. Executive  
Director Zerwin said, there is a wireless puck for each unit for over the air programming  
and is built into the cost.  
Chair Schwarze asked if there were any other questions, to which there were none. On  
voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
Jessica Robb  
Andrew Honig  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
7.D.3.  
Recommendation for the approval of a contract purchase order to Motorola Solutions, PO  
925037, for a GovWorx API interface for CommsCoach, for a contract total not to exceed  
$15,079.93; contract pursuant to the Governmental Joint Purchasing Act, 30 ILCS 525/2  
(STARCOM21 Master Contract CMT2028589).  
On voice vote, all Members voted "Aye", motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Kyle Wolber  
MOVER:  
Sheryl Markay  
SECONDER:  
7.E. Budget Transfers  
7.E.1.  
Transfer of funds for FY25 from 4000-5820-54107 (Capital Software) to  
4000-5820-53806 (Software & Maintenance) in the amount of $607,000, for maintenance  
on the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) Vesta phone system PO 5866-1.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Jessica Robb  
Marilu Hernandez  
Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay,  
McCarthy, Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT:  
7.E.2.  
Transfer of funds for FY25 from 4000-5820-54199 (Capital Contingencies) to  
4000-5820-54110 (Capital Equipment and Machinery) in the amount of $1,954,851, for  
the mobile radio replacement project.  
Vice Chair Franz asked if this is just an accounting thing. Executive Director Zerwin  
replied, yes, the money is being moved because the contract calls for 50% upon execution  
of this contract. This will allow for the invoice to be on next month’s bills list and this  
transfer would move funds into the account, otherwise the auditor would not allow for  
payment.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
Kyle Wolber  
Andrew Honig  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay,  
McCarthy, Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT:  
7.E.3.  
Transfer of funds for FY26 from 4000-5820-54199 (Capital Contingencies) to  
4000-5820-54110 (Capital Equipment and Machinery) in the amount of $6,651,400, for  
the fourth and final financing payment on the Motorola PO 5522-1.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Andrew Honig  
Joseph Maranowicz  
Schwarze, Franz, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay,  
McCarthy, Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT:  
7.F. FY26 Budget Appropriation  
7.F.1.  
Annual Appropriation Resolution for the Emergency Telephone System Board of  
DuPage, State of Illinois, for the Fiscal Period beginning December 1, 2025 and ending  
November 30, 2026.  
Chair Schwarze began by saying we had a lively discussion in our Ad Hoc Finance  
Committee meeting this morning. We had consensus on approving a revenue projection  
of $13M for FY26 as opposed to the $14M that has been received in the last few years.  
He said that is based on what our revenue is going to end up being for 2025. Chair  
Schwarze said the CommsCoach API access interface was approved and moved to the  
FY25 budget. He continued saying, by consensus, the Committee recommended approval  
for a capital request for RapidSOS Communicator. There was consensus to have further  
discussion on RapidSOS GIS and RapidSOS Intelligent Analysts with the funds staying  
in the budget. Chair Schwarze said the Committee recommended to amend the  
expenditure policy regarding use of a one-time state received expenditure to be dispersed  
through the PSAPs, which Executive Director Zerwin can explain more, if needed. Chair  
Schwarze said there was a motion to recommend approval the FY26 budget  
appropriation. It was a six to one vote.  
Member Honig thanked Executive Director Zerwin and her staff for doing a great job. He  
said, even for me as an accountant, in looking at the budget, there are a lot of numbers,  
but it is very well done and very meticulous, and thoughtful in its farther out projection.  
Member Honig said, if we get hung up on the immediate and then super far out, you can  
lose sight of where capital funds go and prioritization of money to the PSAPs and the  
infrastructure here at ETSB. He again thanked Executive Director Zerwin and Chair  
Schwarze for being diligent through this process.  
Vice Chair Franz said he does appreciate all the work that goes into the budget, that he  
has asked a number of questions, and got many answers to those questions. He said he  
does appreciate the time constraints this year, that it was more difficult to schedule  
finance meetings, and that we have been preoccupied with the radios, which is a huge,  
incredibly important project. But he felt that we could do better. Vice Chair Franz said,  
this Board does not fully understand this budget and no one can tell him differently. He  
said, we do not debate the budget. There was no presentation today. We have revenue  
projections that are not complete. We have a capital budget I think really needs to be  
better defined. And I think we need to commit to it. This group should not be dependent  
on the Finance Committee to do their work for them. We need to work more  
collaboratively. And I think it starts with making the Finance Committee permanent. It  
should never have been an ad hoc committee to begin with. I think we should meet  
regularly during the year. We should dig into a $50M budget more than we do, and we all  
should understand what's in it. And I think we really need to make a better effort going  
forward, we need more debate. We should be debating that IGA distribution so we  
understand that fully. I appreciate the creativity of coming up for some at the 11th hour,  
but no one has even seen that memo. When we are voting on a budget, it is not the way  
we should be doing it, it is not good policy. So, I'm not voting for this budget.  
Member Honig said, he assumed the budget is on OpenGov like every other budget for  
the County. He said, there are certain aspects where you can retrieve information. So  
when we are talking about revenue for the year, it is broken down and aspects such as  
where our expenses come from. He said on OpenGov you could take a deeper dive or if  
you want, request more information from ETSB or Executive Director Zerwin. Member  
Honig said, reading the memos, it seems like staff does a good job at putting almost  
everything we talk about into those memos, whether it is a line item and then what's in  
the line item. He said, you have to look for it, I guess. Member Honig said, his question is  
that, if there is something that we have a question about, whether it is a line item that has  
$5M in it, or whether it's in capital improvements, etc, can we see a breakdown of that?  
Executive Director Zerwin replied, yes, that ETSB is in OpenGov and follows the County  
format. She said as soon as we present the first part of the budget, we enter all that  
information, because we follow the County policy.  
Chair Schwarze said, this is his fifth year being chair, and we have done five ad hoc  
finance committees. Everybody on this committee has the opportunity to participate in  
our ad hoc finance committee. I asked who wanted to volunteer, and we do not turn  
anybody down. He said, I do appreciate that not everyone has the time for it, and I also  
appreciate the fact that those who do not have the time for it trust in the members that do.  
Member Maranowicz said he has been on the ad hoc committee for all five years. And  
that in those five years, they were in a place where there was no IGA, and there was a  
request for money to the PSAPs, and there was some lively debate. He said, that got done,  
and there was now an increase to potentially see if there is a revenue stream of getting  
more to the PSAPs. And I believe that has been accomplished. If this gets passed here  
coming up, I just want to say thank you, because where we were five years ago to where  
we are now, we moved some mountains. You moved some mountains. So thank you.  
Chair Schwarze asked for a roll call. On roll call, nine Members voted “Aye”, one  
Member voted “Nay”, motion carried.  
Attachments:  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Joseph Maranowicz  
Marilu Hernandez  
Schwarze, Hernandez, Honig, Maranowicz, Markay, McCarthy,  
Robb, Schar, and Wolber  
Franz  
NAY:  
Eckhoff, and Johl  
ABSENT:  
8.  
DEDIR SYSTEM UPDATE  
PAC Chair Selvik said the fire radios continue to be distributed. We have ten agencies  
completed, four more scheduled tomorrow and two more on Friday. He said ETSB staff has been  
working very diligently getting those out and are only waiting on confirmation of scheduling. He  
said he believes the latest date for distribution is October 17, that it has been a fantastic job by  
ETSB staff and especially the Fire Focus Group and Chief Clark, who have been doing a  
tremendous amount of work.  
Chair Selvik said the Police Focus Group met last week to review the Police template and  
cleaned it up in preparation for encryption. He said there had been an encryption meeting with  
Motorola to review the latest plan, but that we were not very happy with the plan, that it had not  
changed much since the first time we met with Motorola. PAC Chair Selvik said there is a lot of  
detail missing to the point that we expressed our concerns that we cannot bring that plan forward  
to this Board as well as the PSAPs right now, because of the lack of detail. We informed  
Motorola the plan needs to be very task oriented, detail all the work that needs to be done up  
front, who will doing it, and then what happens during the cutover/go-live instead of just  
summaries to bring the plan forward. Member Robb asked when the next meeting date is  
scheduled. PAC Chair Selvik said it has not yet been scheduled.  
PAC Chair Selvik said the Police Focus Group and ETSB are going to meet at the end of the  
month with Schaumburg and Northwest Central Dispatch to start answering questions regarding  
CommandCentral Aware and the individual real time crime centers asking for access to  
CommandCentral Aware for purposes of GPS locations on radios. He said it raises a lot of  
questions among the Chiefs and concluded by saying they will be looking into it further.  
9.  
DU PAGE ETSB 9-1-1 SYSTEM DESIGN  
Executive Director Zerwin had nothing beyond what was in the monthly report.  
10.  
11.  
12.  
OLD BUSINESS  
There was no old business.  
NEW BUSINESS  
There was no new business.  
EXECUTIVE SESSION  
There was no Executive Session.  
12.A. Minutes Review Pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2 (C) (21)  
12.B. Personnel Matters Pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2 (C ) (1)  
12.C. Security Procedures and the Use of Personnel and Equipment Pursuant to 5 ILCS  
12.D. Pending Litigation Matters Pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2 (C) (11)  
MATTERS REFERRED FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION  
13.  
14.  
ADJOURNMENT  
14.A. Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 12 at 9:00am in 3-500B  
Member Honig motioned, seconded by Member Maranowicz. The meeting of the ETSB was  
adjourned at 9:35am.