Meeting Notes
Region 3 700 MHz Meeting No. 2

Mesa Communications
May 18, 2001

Meeting opened by Chairman Curt Knight at 1:04 p.m. The secretary for this meeting will be Don Pfohl. An announcement was made for everyone to be sure to sign in on the available sign-in sheets.

It was noted that the previous meeting’s notes had been distributed. The secretary had only received one amendment from Ed Ryan. That amendment was made to the notes. It was moved, seconded and adopted to accept the notes as amended.

Joe Noce reported on the funding subcommittee. The Arizona APCO chapter has agreed to be the fund manager in conformance with NIJ requirements for a grant. Joe had forwarded the grant application to Curt to make an application for $2500 to get the committee started.

Mike Brown discussed materials he had brought back from the latest NCC meeting. The next NCC meeting is scheduled for September 13-14 in Washington, D.C.

Curt gave a Chairman’s report.

1. He had given a brief presentation concerning the 700 Regional Planning Committee (RPC) at the May 3 ACOP meeting.
2. He requested that RPC participants take notices out to any other groups they belong to to get the broadest representation from throughout Arizona.
3. He reported that the State has applied to the FCC for the 2.4 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum for state use. Governor Hull had designated DPS Director Garrett as her representative for this application.

Joe Noce was nominated and accepted the position of RPC Treasurer.

John Gardner was nominated and accepted as RPC Secretary.

Old business:

Funding Subcommittee – Paul Wilson said that grant funds might be available from fire and/or law enforcement sources for additional funds. Don Pfohl stated that one such use might be for an independent consultant to do the initial channel allotment for all of Arizona. Paul and Don both volunteered to join the Funding Committee. Selection of a chair will be deferred until next meeting.

Bylaws Subcommittee – Curt’s looking for a chair from those who signed up. No takers stepped forward. Curt will ask John Gardner if Phil Lense could do this. The question will be deferred until next meeting.

Strategy Subcommittee – Paul Wilson agreed to chair the group on a temporary basis, but he wanted someone else from elsewhere in Arizona to do this. This will be deferred until next meeting without designating a chair at this time.

Curt Knight reported that Scott Tillman had set up the list server, and he could set up small list servers for the subcommittees.

Don Pfohl said he had a list of current chairs from other 700 MHz RPCs and would forward this to Curt.

New Business:

Curt – The State has not decided whether they will accept the administrative responsibility for the Interoperability channels at 700 MHz. This should be debated in Strategy and deferred for now.

Next meeting – July 19 in Flagstaff.

Adjourn – 2:02 p.m.

Submitted by: Don Pfohl, May 21, 2001