Emergency Communications Board

BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING November 18, 2020 ITEM 1. Roll Call Eads-p Elliot-p Honaker-p Messimer-p Miller-a/e Ring-p Wade – p Jones - p ITEM 2. Recognize Guests No guests present ITEM 3. Minutes of Previous Meetings for November 18, 2020 No corrections, approved as presented. ITEM 4. Financials A. Receipts & Expenditures B. Treasurer’s Report Ms. Key reviewed the balance sheet, monthly financial and monthly budget reports. Tim Eads made a motion, seconded by Jim Messimer and David Ring to approve the report as presented. Roll call vote as follows: Eads – yes, Elliott – yes, Honaker – yes, Messimer – yes, Miller – a/e, Ring – yes, Wade – yes. Motion passed. ITEM 5. Old Business A. Report on Operations & Equipment 1. Overview of Operations a. Daily Operations - We are having occasional issues with the 911 equipment, and so far, we have been able to remedy the issues. b. Personnel – We currently have 1 vacancy, we are holding interviews tomorrow, November 19th. B. Statistics Ms. Key reviewed the month of October 2020. C. 911 Equipment We are continuing to have bi-weekly conference calls. The equipment is scheduled for shipment the end of November. A representative with the City’s GIS department is working on getting the mapping information ready to upload for loading into the equipment prior to shipment. The State’s ESINet infrastructure is still due to be ready for us to migrate to the end of March first part of April.  BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING November 18, 2020 ITEM 6. New Business A. Audit presentation – Mr. David Elkins and Chassidy Salyer presented our annual audit for FY20, with no findings and an unmodified opinion. B. Awards – Ms. Key explained the Stork award to the board and asked that the board present Lacey Gross with a Stork pin for a call she took in July of 2020. Motion was made by Jim Messimer, seconded by Tim Eads to present Lacey Gross with a Stork pin. The motion passed unanimously. ITEM 7. Discussion Items A. Recognition Dinner – Cancelled due to COVID B. Expiring Terms – Wallace Elliott asked about any board members’ terms expiring at the end of the year. Ms. Key reminded the board that their terms expire in June, the end of the fiscal year. ITEM 8. Other Matters - None ITEM 9. Citizens and Delegations Presentation - None ITEM 10. Next meeting December 16, 2020 via conference call.