· David Lucas made a motion to approve the minutes from the January 9, 2003 board meeting as written. Rob South seconded. All were in favor.

· Forest Skaggs nominated David Lucas for the Chair of the board. Richard moved to close the nominations. John seconded. All were in favor.

· Rob South nominated Richard Guittar for the Vice-chair of the board. John seconded. All were in favor.

· There was discussion about meeting only quarterly. In the past, the board has not met in June (due to the NENA conference) and in November. The board will meet on the 4^th Thursday of the even months. The next board meeting is scheduled for February 27^th at 1:00 p.m.

· The Committee reviewed the application from Campbell County Consolidated Center. The application was not complete and therefore was not approved.

· The Committee discussed the possibility of the board becoming pro-active in letting counties, etc know the cost involved with setting up 911 centers.

· Bluegrass Cellular’s amendment was reviewed. The committee had asked for a clarification of the money in their plan and BG resubmitted with changes. Richard made a motion to accept Bluegrass’ plan as amended. John seconded. All were in favor.

· Cingular submitted an amendment for the Cincinnati area. Richard abstained from voting. The Committee voted to recommend approval to the board. Richard moved to approve Cingular’s plan as amended. Forest seconded. All were in favor.

· CBW’s plan was reviewed. The Committee talked with Jouett Kinney from CBW during the meeting and asked her for further clarification. She will get the information and send to John by email.

· Verizon’s plan was reviewed. The Committee is having another meeting on February 7^th via conference call to further discuss Verizon’s plan.

· The Committee has not met. David and John will be meeting soon to begin writing the regulation and hope to have something before the next board meeting.

· The Committee met on January 29^th via conference call. There were 2 issues discussed. The ongoing project to come up with recommendations for the carriers to follow in establishing trunking requirements. 2^nd issue was regarding trunking arrangements in Christian County. Richard gave a detailed explanation of how PSAPs and carriers are connected to the wired network. It included typical congestion points and trunking configurations. The conclusion of the committee was that carriers should trunk according to the wireless maximum trunking capacity from the selective router to the PSAP or a "P.01" grade of service (whichever is less).

Since Dee Hopper had to drop off the call, the Christian County problem was deferred to an off-line discussion between John, Richard and Dee.

· Steve Dooley-Deputy CIO for GOT submitted to the board proposed changes to the statues. Steve had emailed copies of Draft 1 and Draft 2 to the board members and KENA/APCO presidents earlier in the week.

· Draft 1 increased the surcharge from $.70 to $1.00. The $.70 surcharge allocation would remain the same and the additional $.30 would be used at the board’s discretion. Draft 2 left the surcharge at the current $.70.

· Both drafts combined the CMRS Administrator and state 911 coordinators position.

· The drafts also expanded the board’s membership to 11.

· Jennifer noted that subscriber numbers are leveling off.

· Two payments will go out to PSAPs in February. The prorata payment will be $8,714.00

· Auditors will possibly have financial statements for Jennifer on Friday. PSAP audits are 75% complete. Carrier audits will begin next week.

· The board has received invoices from Cingular, American Cellular, T-Mobile, and Bluegrass Cellular. Recurring invoices are $271,515.74, nonrecurring are $52,584.00, for a total of $324,109.74. John moved to approve payment to these carriers in the aggregate total of $324,109.74. Forest seconded. All were in favor.

· John has had several meetings with Mary McCormick from Bell South regarding tandem-to-tandem transfers. 911 as an NXX is a way to solve this problem, but it is probably a couple of years away. Kentucky already has a private secured telecommunications network called KIH. Bell South manages KIH. John had a meeting via a conference call with Mary McCormick, Sheri Rose and Tom Breen of Bell South regarding the technical issues. They believe there is no technical impediment to creating a network utilizing KIH to transfer calls back and forth. The next step would be to get Alltel, CBW, Mountain Rural, Bell South and GOT KIH together for a discussion. Haven’t identified the costs to PSAPs.

· John had emailed a copy of the letter to the legislature regarding the equities study results to the board members for comments. The board made minor changes to the letter. Rob South made a motion to approve the letter with changes that were noted and Richard Guittar seconded. All were in favor.

· John noted that the board is required to review the rate of CMRS surcharge once every twenty-four months and at their discretion to decrease the rate or recommend to the General Assembly an increase. It was suggested that the board give a response in July ’03 as required.

· It was suggested that John contact the carriers and inquire as to their plans, cost, etc. for phase II.

· The proposed legislation from GOT was discussed further. The board decided to ask GOT to delay filing of the regulation until the next legislative section and request the Governor to appoint John as the point of contact for 911 for the state. David Lucas made a motion to send correspondence to Steve Dooley stating the board’s reluctance to change the legislation at this time. The board prefers to wait until the regular session after our cost study and the boards rate recommendation is submitted in July. In the meantime, the board endorses the administrator being the 911 point of contact. Rob South seconded. All were in favor.

· John will draft a letter from the board to Steve Dooley and will email to board for comments.

· John will draft a letter for the Cost Recovery Committee to review asking the carriers to send the board the status of their plans for Phase II and an estimate of their costs.