Emergency Communications Board

BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ SPECIAL CALLED MEETING August 18, 2021 ITEM 1. Roll Call Dye-p Elliot-p Honaker-p Messimer-p Ring-p Wampler-a Wade – p Jones - p ITEM 2. Recognize Guests – No guests in attendance. ITEM 3. Minutes of Previous Meetings for July 21, 2021 Minutes approved as presented. ITEM 4. Financials A. Receipts & Expenditures B. Treasurer’s Report David Ring reviewed the balance sheet, monthly financial and monthly budget reports. Bank statements and reconciliations were presented. There were no journal entries for the month of July. Wallace Elliott made a motion, seconded by Dwayne Honaker to approve the report as presented. Roll call vote as follows: Dye – yes, Elliott – yes, Honaker – yes, Messimer – yes, Ring – yes, Wampler – absent, Wade – yes. Motion passed. ITEM 5. Old Business A. Report on Operations & Equipment 1. Overview of Operations a. Daily Operations - Things are going well right now. Motorola has made a couple of updates to the equipment to address the issues with the gateways that are causing problems with the admin lines. The issues seems to be resolved. b. Personnel – We currently have 2 in training, and we have 2 in the background process for 1 opening. B. Statistics Ms. Key reviewed the month of July 2021.  BRISTOL TENNESSEE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ SPECIAL CALLED MEETING August 18, 2021 ITEM 6. New Business A. No new business. ITEM 7. Discussion Items A. Mrs. Key gave an update on the information that David Ring had asked for on the pay rates for dispatchers at some of our surrounding agencies. She is still working on gathering information on the pay rates and on the cost of training. ITEM 8. Other Matters - None ITEM 9. Citizens and Delegations Presentation - None ITEM 10. Next meeting September 15, 2021 in the Police Conference Room.