Emergency Communications Board

BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING June 26, 2019 ITEM 1. Roll Call Wade-p Eads-p Elliot-p Honaker-a/e Messimer-p Miller-p Ring-a/e Jones - p ITEM 2. Recognize Guests No guests present. ITEM 3. Minutes of Previous Meetings for May 15, 2019 Tim Eads made a motion, seconded by Harry Miller to approve the minutes from the May 15, 2019 Board meeting. Motion passed. ITEM 4. Financials A. Receipts & Expenditures All receipts were passed to each Board member for their review and the proper signatures. B. Treasurer’s Report Harry Miller reviewed the balance sheet, monthly financial and monthly budget reports. Jim Messimer made a motion, seconded by Tim Eads to approve the report as presented. Roll call vote: Eads – yes, Elliott – yes, Messimer – yes, Miller – yes, Wade – yes. Motion passed. ITEM 5. Old Business A. Report on Operations & Equipment 1. Overview of Operations a. Daily Operations – Everything is working, no operational issues. b. Personnel Ms. Key advised that we are still down one person. The young lady that we had completed the background on, has decided not to take the position. We completed testing in March, and are beginning to interview off that list. B. Statistics Ms. Key reviewed the month of May 2019.  BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING June 26, 2019 ITEM 6. New Business A. FY Budget Ammendments - Ms. Key presented the following line items for budget ammendments.  Line item 4305 (Equipment Not Capital) – increase to $5,600  Line item 4409 (Liability Insurance) – increase to $9,900  Line item 4418 (Training Expense) – increase to $17,500  Line item 4335 (Maintanence – Vehicle – increase to $600 Wallace Elliott made a motion to amend the current budget line items as presented. The motion was seconded by Jim Messimer. Roll call vote: Eads – yes, Elliott – yes, Messimer – yes, Miller – yes, Wade – yes. Motion passed. B. Second reading of proposed 2019 – 2020 budget – Ms. Key presented the budget proposal. There have been no changes from the first reading. Tim Eads made a motion to accept the FY19-20 budget as presented. Harry Miller seconded the motion. Roll call vote: Eads – yes, Elliott – yes, Messimer – yes, Miller – yes, Wade – yes. Motion passed. C. Resolution supporting TECB base surcharge restoration – Ms. Key presented a resolution for the board to consider supporting the base surcharge rate to be restored to $1.50 by the TECB. No motion was made in support of the resolution. D. Email Motion – Ms. Key emailed the board with an additional budget line item amendment.  Line item 4501 (Depreciation) – increase to $75,656.93 Roll call vote: Wade – yes, Messimer – yes, Elliott – yes, Eads – yes. Motion passed. All correspondence is attached. ITEM 7. Discussion Items A. David Ring advised, at the May meeting, that he had been contacted by Mr. Kelly Miller, GIS Coordinator, for the City of Bristol Virginia, in reference to new federal regulations that were affecting addresses in Virginia. He asked if this was going to affect Bristol Tennessee. Ms. Key is going to follow up with David Metzger to see if he is aware of any new regulations. – Ms. Key has check with David Metzger and the City of Bristol Tennessee ahs already gone through re- addressing and is in compliance with addressing standards. We are going to have to make very minimal changes to our MSAG in conjunction with Bristol Virginia’s changes. B. Consolidation meeting - Meeting was held last Thursday evening, June 20th. Members from SCSO, SC911, BR911, along with County Commissioners Todd Broughton and Hunter Locke met to discuss consolidation of the 911 centers. Everyone present at the meeting expressed that they did not think moving forward  BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING June 26, 2019 with consolidation was a good idea. The next meeting is scheduled for July 18 th at 5:00 in the County Commission Room at the Sullivan County Courthouse. ITEM 8. Other Matters - None ITEM 9. Citizens and Delegations Presentation - None ITEM 10. Next meeting July 17, 2019 in the Police Conference Room, 801 Anderson Street, Bristol, TN