CMRS BOARD MEETING

FEBRUARY 27, 2003

CMRS BOARD OFFICE 21 MILLCREEK PARK

 

Present: Richard Guittar, Dee Hopper (via conference call), David Lucas, Lt. Col. Robert Milligan, John Patterson, Rob South, Forest Skaggs, Jennifer Jackson (Staff),

Chairman, David Lucas called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.

I. Approval of Minutes

Section VIII was questioned for correctness. Vicki will listen to the tapes and correct minutes if needed.

II. PSAP Certification Committee – Forest Skaggs

Reviewed application from Gallatin County. Committee recommended approval.

Reviewed additional information received from Campbell County Consolidated Center. Information completed packet and the Committee passed a motion to recommend approval to the Board.

Forest moved the Board certify Campbell County Consolidated Center and Gallatin County as eligible to receive funds. John seconded. All were in favor.

Ft. Thomas, Newport and Campbell Co. were fully consolidated as of July 23, 2002. Campbell Co. Consolidated Center will receive pro-rata potions for each of the 3 centers for 2 years from this date. Forest made a motion to adopt July 23, 2002 as the consolidated of the centers for the continuation of funds. John seconded. All were in favor.

Because this consolidation proceeded in a quick and timely manner spread over 30 days, the committee recommended that the Board choose the date the last center was assimilated into the consolidation. The statue states that the Board will establish the date.

III. Cost Recovery Committee – Richard Guittar

Cincinnati Bell Wireless (CBW) updated their plan. Richard moved that CBW’s cost recovery plan be approved per their most recent submittal. Rob seconded. All were in favor.

Discussed Verizon’s plan. Also discussed that no invoices have been paid since last March due to Verizon not submitting invoices that follow their cost recovery plan. John will send another letter to John Buchanan.

IV. Phase II Committee – David Lucas

John is working bullet points for the regulation.

V. Technical Recommendations Committee – Richard Guittar

Reviewed last meeting regarding the trunk sizing recommendations and the Boards agreement to use as recommendations and not requirements. Also discussed the ongoing discussion with Christian County.

Discussed how the Board can aid in Carriers and PSAPs coordinating before assigning the network. Discussed the Board following up with a letter (to Intrado, TCS, TSI, Carriers) and stating they are in agreement with the terms and that there could be potential cost recovery issues if the procedure is not followed.

Discussed the possibility of getting traffic studies and the difficulties and cost of this study.

VI. Financial Report – Jennifer Jackson

The dip in subscribers for month of November is due to one carrier that dropped 60,000 subscribers. Carrier has been notified and they are amending their remittance to include these subscribers.

Audit update – Received draft financials from the auditor (copies included in the packet).

VII. Cost Recovery Invoices – John Patterson

Invoices from Cingular, Bluegrass and American Cellular. Recurring cost totaling $127,982.31. John made a motion to approve the invoices for the total. Forest seconded. All were in favor.

VIII. Administrators Report – John Patterson

Teresa Isaacs has been appointed to the Board. Letter is needed from her designating David to serve on the Board.

Report from Davies Co on call volume showed that 50% of calls are wireless. David commented that Lexington is showing the same trend.

John stated that counties are talking to him about federal grant money available for PSAPs.

John talked about the equity study and the need to continue to gather that type of data.

There has been no further discussion on the KIH.

GOT has deferred submitting a proposal to the legislation until the 2004 meeting of the General Assembly.

In view of the new travel restrictions imposed by the state, John is not going to the TDC conference in March. He has told GOT that it is more important that the Board goes to the NENA conference in Denver in June.

IX. Additional Information Discussed

Discussed additional service fee that Sprint has added on their bills. John explained that carriers are entitled to cost recovery but that states are not required to pay it. Therefore carriers can put a charge on their bills. Sprint has an approved Phase I plan with the Board, and the question is, are they being reimbursed twice? John will look into Sprints Phase II intentions and the fee on the customer’s bills.

Forest discussed HB 533 that would allow the courts to charge cell phone subscriptions for county officials to the 911 fund. He doesn’t know if the legislation will pass it at this time.

Dee Hopper made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Richard seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 3:05 p.m.