Arms Policy Board Regular Meeting
Regular MeetingUrbana, IL · March 29, 2018
Minutes
Area-wide Records Management System
ARMS Policy Board Meeting Minutes
DATE: March 29, 2018
3:30 PM
PLACE: City of Urbana – 2nd Floor Conference Room
400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL
MEMBERS PRESENT: Chief Matt Myrick, UIPD
Chief Anthony Cobb, CPD
Chief Sylvia Morgan, UPD
Sheriff Dan Walsh, CCSO
MEMBERS ABSENT: Chief Tony Brown, RPD
STAFF PRESENT: Deputy Chief Joe Gallo, CPD
Sanford Hess, Urbana IT
Chief Deputy Allen Jones, CCSO
Deputy Chief Bryant Seraphin, UPD
Lieutenant Tony Shaw, CCSO
Dave Wakefield, Urbana IT
OTHERS PRESENT: Jeff Wooten, METCAD
1. Call to Order - The meeting was called to order at 3:34 pm by Chair Walsh.
2. Additions to the Agenda
None.
3. Approval of Minutes
Motion to approve the agenda by Chief Morgan, seconded by Chief Myrick.
The minutes passed unanimously.
4. Public Input - There was none.
5. Staff Report
eCitations – update
o Sanford summarized recent testing by Lt. Shaw, which resulted in a list of issues
with Quicket that were categorized as bugs, annoying, requests, and questions.
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o Sanford asked for guidance from the Policy Board on whether to invest more
work effort in Quicket.
o Sheriff Walsh asked if stopping work would violate the agreement.
o Sanford said that he will present the results to Katie Blakeman and discuss how
to proceed.
Development update
o Dave described how that a package of small changes to Case Management will
be added to ARMS the first week of March.
RMS Procurement
o Sanford proposed that the conversation be postponed to New Business.
6. Reports of committees and officers.
There were none.
7. Unfinished business.
ARMS 2019 Budget
o Sanford asked for guidance on objections to the budget.
o Sanford presented a summary of the budget changes:
The ratio of badge counts was changed to include Rantoul and CCSO.
Additional money for the new programmer.
o The group discussed how successful the new programmer could be at
maintaining and improving ARMS.
o The Budget was tabled pending New Business.
8. New Business
NIBRS Reporting and Grant
o Chief Jones described the grant application completed by the CCSO, which
could be used to offset personnel costs for NIBRS programming.
o December 31, 2021 is the deadline to move to NIBRS – no matter what.
o Chief Morgan made a motion to direct the use of ARMS Staff to support the
CCSO grant application, seconded by Chief Cobb. Passed unanimously.
RMS Replacement
o Discussing the deadline for NIBRS led the group to discuss RMS replacement.
o Sanford presented a schedule to start RMS replacement in July 2019. This
would allow an upgrade by 2021. The RFP needs to be written by January.
o Sanford suggested spending $7,500 for Illinois Business Consulting to prepare
requirements from ARMS Users.
FY 2019 Budget
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o The group discussed assumptions about the budget, and about scenarios to
reduce personnel costs in the 3rd and 4th quarters.
o Chief Myrick made a motion to postpone the budget to a special meeting.
Seconded by Chief Morgan. Passed unanimously.
o The group scheduled a special meeting for April 11 at 8:00 AM.
9. Adjournment.
The meeting adjourned at 4:54 PM.
o Having reached the end of the agenda, Chair Walsh adjourned the meeting.
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Agenda
AREA-WIDE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ARMS)
POLICY BOARD
NOTICE OF MEETING
DATE: March 29, 2018
TIME: 3:30 PM
LOCATION: 400 S. Vine St., Executive Conference Room
Those wishing to attend should dial 128 on the phone located next to the 2nd floor security door.
AGENDA
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
2. Additions to the Agenda
3. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting: February 15, 2018.
4. Public Input
5. Staff Report
RMS Procurement
eCitations – update
Development update
6. Reports of committees and officers.
7. Unfinished business.
FY 2019 ARMS Budget – proposed
9. Adjournment.
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